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- 0:02Welcome, Welcome, welcome, welcome, Welcome back to another episode of the
- 0:06so called Sports Analysts, Episode number twenty nine. Josh, how you doing
- 0:12sports wise? I'm doing good LifeWise. I'm figuring it out right now.
- 0:17I don't know if I should get into it on the pod, but you
- 0:19know, it's it's cool. The playoffs are upon us. We saw a
- 0:23dominating another dominating college football championship, and we're about to get into all of
- 0:27it. Yes, we're definitely about to get into it. But before we
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- 0:41Flying Garcia hundred and Alfonso Underscore zero three. But let's go ahead and get
- 0:47straight into it. Like you talked about, Josh, the college football game,
- 0:51So the college football Championship. It took place on Monday, in which
- 0:54Michigan dominated and they won thirty four to thirteen. Josh, what did you
- 0:59take away from this game? Right here? Run the damn ball, that's
- 1:06what That's what Michigan did. It did in the game. They freaking took
- 1:10the ball out of Rock Purty, I mean JJ McCarthy's hands and gave it
- 1:14to their two weapons in the backfield, Blake corm and Donovan Edwards, for
- 1:17a total twenty seven times for two hundred and thirty eight yards and four touchdowns.
- 1:23They really led the way for this Michigan Wolverine team. They set the
- 1:26tone as far as dominating defensive play from the Michigan Wolverines. On the other
- 1:30side, they really held Michael Pennicks, Dylan Johnson, Jay McMillan, Romo
- 1:34Duns to really like almost nothing this game. And it's pretty good. It's
- 1:40it's good to see because Washington Huskies offense has really been able to do anything
- 1:44they want pretty much the whole season. But Michigan had this whole game from
- 1:48start to finish pretty much in check. Yeah. No, Michigan just dominated
- 1:52from the very good goal getting out to a fourteen to three lead. And
- 1:56I think the biggest thing was you having one hundred and seventy four runs in
- 2:00the first quarter, and one hundred and fifty three of them were without contact,
- 2:04meaning your offensive line is just having gaping holes and you're just running free
- 2:09That's how Donovan Edwards he was just able to get those two big runs with
- 2:14I think it was a forty one forty six yarder. And even though so
- 2:19even though Michigan they only had one sack, it felt like they had I
- 2:23don't know exactly how many pressures they had. I couldn't find that stat but
- 2:27it seemed like they had like twenty to thirty pressures the way Michael Pennix was
- 2:30running for his life. And I think so JJ McCarthy, he didn't have
- 2:38to do much. Ten for eighteen ten for eighteen hundred and forty yards,
- 2:42no touchdowns, but also no picks. So you just in the game manager
- 2:46role, like you said, Brock Purdy, We're not going to argue over
- 2:49the Brock Purty thing. But Washington they had plenty of chances to win this
- 2:54football game, even though the score set thirty four to thirteen. So after
- 3:00Washington they kicked a field goal to make it thirteen to twenty, you had
- 3:05three drives from eight fifty eight left in the third quarter to seven on nine
- 3:09left in the fourth quarter, So you had three possessions. What did you
- 3:14do with that? Five plays one hundred or one minute and forty seven seconds
- 3:17punt, five plays eighteen yards, two minutes and ten seconds, punt,
- 3:22three plays one yard, two hundred or I keep saying two hundred, two
- 3:25minutes and eight seconds punt while the game it was still in balance. And
- 3:30then finally Michigan they scored. But you had three drives to potentially even go
- 3:35up twenty seven to twenty And I know the right tackle seventy three. He
- 3:39had a couple holding calls, a couple fall starts, but at the end
- 3:44of the day, one person, he doesn't determine exactly what happens in the
- 3:49ballgame. And yeah, just Michael Pennix, he looked, he looked very
- 3:54different. And I can't even say Michigan they did something they haven't seen cuz
- 4:00he was under pressure against Texas, he was, but he was making the
- 4:02throw all the throws, was having the game of his life and just went
- 4:06totally totally opposite. But now that now that Michigan they won, and Jim
- 4:15Harball he finally got his college football title. Do you do you think it's
- 4:19time, Josh, I know we even kind of mentioned it. Do you
- 4:21think it's time he goes back to the NFL? It's been a while since.
- 4:27We've seen Jim Harball in an NFL sideline, last with the forty nine
- 4:30ers during the Colin Kaepernick era. But I don't know because, like I
- 4:36think more recently, college coaches are getting paid a lot more than NFL coaches
- 4:41and that's just dude to boosters just raking up everything they possibly can to get
- 4:46these coaches to stay, Like we see them give them houses, cars,
- 4:49give them all the money in the world. And after winning this national title
- 4:53was like one of the things that haunted like Jim Harball's resume as a college
- 4:58coach, like he's always been a great college coach, but he's really never
- 5:00really got it done when it metter at the most. But now he has.
- 5:03And people are gonna argue, you know, no, Georgia, Ohio
- 5:05State know this, No that, no that. I mean, he still
- 5:09had to go through Alabama and a good Washington football team in this title.
- 5:12But as far as going to the NFL, I think it's his way to
- 5:15be seen because we've seen three years in a row where Jim Harbor has been
- 5:18like the hot the hot candidate for a coaching job and he just goes back
- 5:24to Michigan for like three years in a row already, So I'm not gonna
- 5:27sit here and say, oh yeah, like he's going for sure, but
- 5:30it's a I think this is a higher risk of him leaving than other years.
- 5:35I think, like you said, you're not gonna say it, I'm
- 5:38gonna say I think Michigan or Jim Harball is going to go to the pros.
- 5:43I feel like he set out exactly what he was going to accomplish in
- 5:46Michigan. He did that and a total of five years, I believe,
- 5:50and there's nothing else to prove, and not even to mention obviously the whole
- 5:55scandal at the beginning of the year, which they said there's gonna be more
- 5:59punishment, and then he got punished towards the end of the year, so
- 6:03who knows what's gonna happen with that. So all the drama and the bs
- 6:08he's gonna have to deal with toward towards the next year. I feel like
- 6:13there's too much to deal with, and you have so many juniors, so
- 6:16many seniors. I know there's a transfer portal, but they're all going to
- 6:21the pros. And honestly, I think that right now he is a top
- 6:28a top five coach as far as out of college and NFL as far as
- 6:35just if you're combining the two, he's the top five. He's won.
- 6:40Everywhere he's one, he won. I forgot exactly where it was his first
- 6:44school. Then he went to Stanford, and then he went to San Francisco,
- 6:47and then he went to Michigan. Everywhere he's gone, he's won or
- 6:50has gotten damn close to winning. And he's the so called he's a so
- 6:57called QB whisper, like you haven't seen a quarterback fell with him. Look
- 7:01JJ McCarthy, who we don't believe in. He's a first round pick whether
- 7:06we like it or not. He's gonna be a first round pick. So
- 7:11I just think it's time somebody's gonna pay him, pay him money. And
- 7:15honestly, I think since he has ties to Chicago because obviously he played there,
- 7:21and I know I know Matt Iberflus, he's not fired yet or I
- 7:27don't know if he will be fired, but if you're guaranteed to get Jim
- 7:30Harbaugh, then I'd fire Matt Ebraflus because he he would change that whole culture
- 7:38around. He will, so out of all the spots in the NFL,
- 7:43what spot. Do you think he would go to Josh? You know what
- 7:49spots are available at this moment between the six teams, what maybe screams to
- 7:56him the best? I would have to say, maybe we're gonna tie.
- 8:00Think the Chargers job is gonna be the most sought after job of any coach
- 8:05like available. But honestly, yeah, compared to recent years, this year's
- 8:11like head coaches that are available to move on is probably the highest it's ever
- 8:16been. From my we're talking maybe Bill Belichick, which is gonna be people
- 8:22are gonna throw houses and money and everything they possibly can at that guy,
- 8:24but it's gonna be Bill Belichick, Mike Rabel, Jim Harball, Eric b
- 8:28Enemy, Like you're talking about big names that that have been around and know
- 8:33that have established themselves as great coaches. But we could eas we could all
- 8:39say the Chargers job. Everyone's gonna say Chargers job, Chargers job. Oh,
- 8:43he's tied to the Chargers job. But if we're gonna look at it,
- 8:45I think, honestly, in my opinion, it would have to be
- 8:46the Carolina Panthers with Bryce Young. Could I think when we're saying quarterback guru,
- 8:54quarterback whisper you know, I think it's just the most attractive for a
- 8:58quarterback because he's young. Last year he had a rough rookie season, but
- 9:01not to his own doing to mainly like terrible old line play and bad weapons.
- 9:07I mean, I guess he had Adam Deeling, but Adam Deeling's past
- 9:09his prime, like he's not. He had great games, ye, but
- 9:11he can't continue that for a whole season. So I think him going there
- 9:16would really and turning that around and really prove to people like, oh,
- 9:20you should have never let me leave the NFL like I deserve to be here,
- 9:22barring any locker room situation. And I think that that would be best
- 9:26for him because he could rebuild that organization and put model them to an image
- 9:31that they were for a little for that little bit that they were in the
- 9:35mid two in the in the mid in the early twen Yeah. And so
- 9:41since we talked about Michigan as far as from Washington side here, obviously Michael
- 9:46Pennock's going to go into the draft Delan Johnson, he may go Romeo o'dunze.
- 9:52So do you do you think that this affects Michael pennockx's stock. After
- 9:58the game that happened yesterday. No, I don't think it will affect him
- 10:07too much, because if we're going to say it affected him, then it
- 10:09has to affect Killer Williams for not even making it to the playoffs, you
- 10:11know. So. I think Michael Pennocks showed what he could do versus Texas,
- 10:16and he really balled out in this game. Like he had flashes of
- 10:20being good and putting the ball where it needed to be. It was just
- 10:22a lot of bad. I think he was really unsettled in this game during
- 10:24the championship. You have to force things. You can't be conservative, you
- 10:28know, so you have to I just think this was a game that people
- 10:31are going to look at and really evaluate to like maybe say his tendencies aren't
- 10:37very professional. But also people are saying Michael Penick should go higher. In
- 10:41my opinion, I think he's a mid round first rounder, late first rounder
- 10:46only because due to his age. People forget that, like he is,
- 10:48what twenty five, got to be twenty six years old or something like that.
- 10:52He's so twenty four almost twenty five. Yeah, okay, twenty four
- 10:56almost twenty five. See that's old coming out. Yeah, people, he's
- 10:58already. Some people are gonna to already look at him like, yo,
- 11:01he's not in a developmental player, he's already to where his peak is.
- 11:05So yeah, I think outside of that, I don't think this game really
- 11:09ruined his stock. I think it only it only just it only maybe narrow
- 11:13narrowly moves it backwards. Yeah, I don't. I don't believe that either.
- 11:16But the reason that I asked is because my dad he was saying,
- 11:22yeah, I know it's gonna affect his stock, but I feel like not
- 11:24necessarily. Just because you win the championship doesn't mean it it affects your stock
- 11:30positively or if you lose it negatively. And I think it's it's unfair,
- 11:35especially nowadays. I know he has injuries. I feel like that's the reason
- 11:39he'll drop is because the injuries he had in Indiana. But Jaden Daniels,
- 11:46who just won the Heisman, he's twenty four years old. He's gonna be
- 11:50twenty five, so Bo Nicks, he's gonna be up there. So you're
- 11:54gonna have to really pick your poison. Other than Caleb Williams and Drake May
- 11:58I think, and j and Jaden Daniel's case, we're gonna see Lamar win
- 12:01his second MVP this year. More maybe one hundred almost, I'm gonna say
- 12:05almost eighty five percent that he's gonna win the MVP. They're gonna be like
- 12:11Jadon Daniels Lamar Jackson, like basically they're gonna look at him, be like
- 12:15the same player. Let's grab him. Some team's gonna think that, you
- 12:18know. Yeah, I think his stock is rising. Jenden Daniel stock is
- 12:22rising as compared to like maybe other quarterbacks. And then but what I really
- 12:28want to see is where Blake Korum goes in the draft, because Blake Korum,
- 12:31his size is gonna be one of his biggest knocks, you know,
- 12:35going coming out, but he played big, like he makes sure he he
- 12:39knows how to run. He's a he's a complete running back. I think
- 12:41he's gonna get a lot of comparisons to maybe like Clyde Edward de Laire or
- 12:46like Doug Martin for like their size. You know, it's just been small
- 12:52guys and stuff. But what he reminds me of is really Kyen Williams.
- 12:56Yeah, like I guess Karen Williams is Karen Williams isn't a name that people
- 13:01are accustomed to just yet because if you're a casual or something like that.
- 13:05But Kyin Williams literally screens Blake Corn. To me, he's gonna get a
- 13:09lot of hate and he's gonna get on a team and really ball out.
- 13:11Yeah, I think he should be easily the number one running back drafted,
- 13:16Either him or Trey Benson, they're gonna be there. But we're gonna talk
- 13:20draft a little bit a little bit later. But is there anything else you
- 13:24want to talk about as far as from this game before we move on?
- 13:28All right, Well, so usually we go over the games as far as
- 13:33for the week, but we're gonna just give a quick recap of the games,
- 13:37just something maybe we saw just from a game each real quick, because
- 13:43we really want to get a deep dive into the playoffs and and go game
- 13:48by game for there. So the sun in that game, obviously Bill's dolphense
- 13:52one gets a two seed or somebody falls into the wild card playing on the
- 13:56road Bills they won twenty one to fourteen. So was there anything significant that
- 14:05you think is gonna affect in the playoffs that came away from this game?
- 14:11Just seating alone, because I think the one this was gonna get that what
- 14:16was it? The second? I think it hurts the Dolphins more because we're
- 14:24seeing that this Kandy City game that they're gonna play in, Why you don't
- 14:28want to play an arrowhead in the playoffs. It's gonna be like it's gonna
- 14:33be like zero degrees or less, they say at this moment. I mean
- 14:37they say that a lot, but it doesn't happen. But as of right
- 14:39now, do you think the Miami Dolphins are gonna be able to go in
- 14:43there and perform the same as compared to a Buffalo who's used to those type
- 14:46of conditions. I don't think so. So I think that that that that
- 14:50part really helps the team out. And it's just and that that screams a
- 14:56lot when it comes into these these these Winter games that people say we're a
- 15:00home field advantage really kicks in. And I think that's what might hurt the
- 15:03Dolphins playing the playing the Chiefs. Why the seeding mattered in this game?
- 15:09Yeah, no, it definitely did. And I think this really shows more
- 15:13as far as the full Josh Allen experience, because you do not know what
- 15:18the hell you're gonna get even in the playoffs. On this five game win
- 15:22streak, you you've won in spite of Josh Allen, and you won because
- 15:26of Josh Allen. At the same time, he's had he had three or
- 15:31four amazing plays that he used his legs and three or four plays where it's
- 15:35like, what the hell are you doing? Man? But that's Josh Allen.
- 15:39That's what you're gonna get. You're gonna get the highs, you're gonna
- 15:41get the lows. But again, we're not gonna really talk about this.
- 15:45We're gonna go into the playoffs. So these next few games they kind of
- 15:48all tied together. So the Commanders versus the Cowboys, the Cowboys won thirty
- 15:54eight to ten. The Rams and the Niners. The Rams they won twenty
- 15:58one to twenty. The Giants beat the Eagles twenty seven to ten. Out
- 16:03of those three games, right there, Josh, what do you think was
- 16:07the most eye opening to you? Or which game do you think was the
- 16:11most say? I'm just gonna say the Rams versus Niners. I get there
- 16:18only because the Pukunakua game, Like, that's what I was really looking for.
- 16:21I think it's cool to see him break both the receiving and recept receiving
- 16:23yards and receptions for a rookie. And so that's what I guess I could
- 16:29say that just based off like historical what game pops out the most. Other
- 16:34than that, both these all these games kind of went the way it should
- 16:38have, except for the Giants and Eagles game. That, yeah, that
- 16:42was very surprising. I didn't expect the Eagles to collapse like that, especially
- 16:47when it mattered when you could probably end up with the number two seed in
- 16:49the NFL, and they dropped to the Giants like in a pretty pretty bad
- 16:53fashion. Yeah, yeah, no, and not even to mention they had
- 17:00some players banged up in this game too. You had one year starting Quarnerbacks.
- 17:06I can't think of his name right now. No, it wasn't Vonte
- 17:07Maddox, but he's in it. He ended up being out for the year.
- 17:11A J. Brown ended up messing up his knee. Jalen Hurts dislocated
- 17:15his throwing right finger or middle finger, so we don't know how that's gonna
- 17:19affect him throwing the football. And yeah, you just got completely dominated by
- 17:23the Giants here, and it's not a way that you want to go into
- 17:26the playoffs compared to the Cowboys who are rolling to the playoffs now, especially
- 17:32after that, and I think I think this Niners game. We're gonna talk
- 17:37about it in a second. I think this Niners game, this game where
- 17:41the Rams ended up winning late, I feel like it's gonna end up affecting
- 17:44them really big. I'm not gonna talk about it yet, but I think
- 17:47it will. But as far as with these next two games right here,
- 17:52it was the Broncos versus the Raiders, and what's the Raiders they won twenty
- 17:55seven or fourteen? And the Chiefs all the backups of the Chiefs they really
- 18:00other than Chris Jones, they won thirteen to twelve. Was there anything out
- 18:03of these two games that you took away? Chiefs and Chargers was just really
- 18:10just a throwaway. I'm glad we came away with the win and got to
- 18:11see a couple like a couple of backups really played good in this game,
- 18:15Like what I saw from Justin Ross. I'm sure he didn't do much,
- 18:19but you couldn't really tell, like he's better than some of the receivers we
- 18:23have starting above him, but he did walk come away with like a little
- 18:26handy little hammy injury. And other than that, Chris Jones gets just one
- 18:30point twenty five mel with his sack. You know, he was really out
- 18:33there. But I did like what I saw that we were able to win
- 18:37even when the Chargers had all their starters playing like they didn't really sit no
- 18:41one besides who was injured, you know, So I thought I liked what
- 18:44I saw that our backups were able to hold their own and win. So
- 18:47that gives me a lot of confidence going not a lot, but some confidence
- 18:49going into the playoff because we still do have our issues and they were still
- 18:53president president during this game when it comes to drops and stuff like that.
- 18:59But far where as there's a Raiders in Broncos game. Zamir White started him
- 19:06in a fantasy championship last week, helped me out, and then this week
- 19:10he just continues to keep playing good football. I think it's gonna make this
- 19:14job, make it make him playing like this is going to be a little
- 19:17bit easier for than the lego of Josh Jacobs. I think that's really what
- 19:19I take away from this game. And then I just want to really want
- 19:22to see the coaching situation with the Raiders how that's gonna play out, because
- 19:26I think Antonio Pierce has probably done enough to earn himself a spot, but
- 19:29here he's also getting a lot of buzs to be a DC somewhere else.
- 19:32Yeah, yeah, I know there's been talks about him potentially going back to
- 19:36the Giants where it all started from and becoming the defensive coordinator, But I
- 19:40think he deserves a head coaching job. That was the Raiders. They were
- 19:45just spiraling down, and Antonio Pierce just found a way to not necessarily obviously
- 19:51they're not in the playoffs, but just to bring them back, like get
- 19:53some momentum going for next year, which is good. And you took away
- 19:57everything from the Charges in Chiefs. But these next two games right here which
- 20:02did have playoff implications, the Bears and the Packers, in which the Packers
- 20:07they won seventeen nineteen clinched the playoff birth and then the Jaguars versus the tight
- 20:12Ends in which the Jaguars had to win to get into the playoffs, in
- 20:17which they lost twenty to twenty eight. What was the biggest shocker to you
- 20:21out of these two games? The Jacksonville Jaguars losing a game like they fall
- 20:29out a playoff contention while losing to the worst team in their division, what
- 20:33was the record. The Jaguars start the season like eight eight, three,
- 20:37even three. They were in that mix with the like the Ravens and Chiefs
- 20:41and Dolphins for a while and then suddenly, I don't know what happened,
- 20:45they just fell off the face of the planet. I think that's that's something
- 20:49to worry about because that really comes down to, like Trevor Lawrence and Doug
- 20:52Peterson probably not on the same page, because there's not like we never sat
- 20:56here into the defense was the problem. The defense has been playing all right
- 21:00the whole season, like they've done their jobs. It's just Trevor Lawrence hasn't
- 21:04taken that next jump into the tier that we all expected him to be,
- 21:07which is elite quarterback play in the NFL, especially after last year's comeback win
- 21:11against the Chargers. We expected a lot, but it just didn't pan out
- 21:15this year and now they're sitting on the sitting sitting at home watching the playoffs
- 21:19after being in the playoffs last season and honestly upgrading. They brought in Calvin
- 21:25Ridley for christ sakes, and still kept still kept all their weapons on offense.
- 21:30So that's just something to monitor because there's gonna be. I think feel
- 21:33like there's gonna be a lot of a lot of moves happening that may affect
- 21:36this team for the long run. Yeah. No, I definitely agree with
- 21:41you on that. And I know I brought up as far as Trevor Lawrence
- 21:45potentially being a bus but I'm gonna just give you just a blind blind reveal
- 21:49right here. All right, So this first quarterback through their first forty eight
- 21:53starts, eighty five point five passer rating, sixty six touchdowns, fifty three
- 22:00turnovers, twelve and four total yards, a twenty and twenty eight record,
- 22:07not so good? Right? Agree? Agree? Then this next quarterback at
- 22:14eighty five point four rating, sixty four touchdowns, fifty five turnovers, eleven
- 22:21and ninety two total yards, and nineteen and twenty nine record, those both
- 22:26sound a little bit similar to you, right, Josh Yop. That first
- 22:30quarterback was Trevor Lawrence. That second quarterback was Daniel Jones, damn. And
- 22:36we know exactly how we feel about Daniel Jones, even though he got paid
- 22:40that contract, so is better than both of them, exactly. That'll be
- 22:45the end of the show right there. No, but yeah, he definitely
- 22:52did regress after last year. And that's a mixture of him and that's a
- 23:00mixture of coaching. As far as Doug Peterson being on the hot seat,
- 23:03I would kind of consider him on the hot seat for next year because yes,
- 23:07you did make the playoffs, you made the divisional, but this was
- 23:11the year where there's no Joe Burrow, there's no Aaron Rodgers, there's no
- 23:15Justin Herbert. So this would have been the easiest chance. And not to
- 23:21mention CJ. Stroud's going to get better, Anthony Richardson's going to be back,
- 23:26and we'll see. As far as with this Titan side, you just
- 23:29fired Mike Vrabels, so maybe you go more offensive approach. And speaking of
- 23:34that, so the tight ends as of right now, they have the seventh
- 23:40overall pick. So what do you think their direction should be, Josh?
- 23:45Where do you think they should go? Should they try to try to revamp,
- 23:48should they try to rebuild, or where should they go? Exactly?
- 23:52I think first and foremost, I understand like people are not big will Levis
- 24:00believers or but I believe in will Levis after watching what I've seen from him
- 24:03in these week So quarterback is not the issue. I feel. I think
- 24:07you let it rock one more or two more years before you make another decision
- 24:11on quarterback. So you have the seventh overall pick. I don't know who's
- 24:15gonna come in, but I feel like you got to get him a weapon
- 24:18or a line. I think Joe all Will may be good around there.
- 24:22We could see brock Showers fall to seven. Yeah, we could see even
- 24:26Keon Coleman rise because they need weapons. They do need weapons. DeAndre Hopkins
- 24:32is only getting older. I think he signed a two year contract. Treylan
- 24:34Burks is banged up all the time. He's great when he plays, but
- 24:40he's never on the field. I think he's only played maybe ten percent of
- 24:44his career so far. If that so, I think you got to go
- 24:47out and get a weapon, whether it's a Dunn's, Brock Bauers, Coleman,
- 24:51Malik Neighbors. One of those guys would be very good for this team.
- 24:57Yeah, yeah, I know they definitely would be good. But but
- 25:02but real quick, I don't know how how is this defense going to be
- 25:04with Rabel gone. You know, I understand Rabel isn't like defensive minded,
- 25:11but he knows how to really. Ever, since he's gotten there, they've
- 25:14been one of the better defenses in the NFL, even after being bad,
- 25:17like their run defense is able to stop anything. Yeah, so that's just
- 25:18something to monitor there. Yeah, I feel like a bunch of guys they're
- 25:22going to be traded out. You have Jeffrey Simmons and then obviously ten Hills
- 25:26there, he's gonna be a free agent. Derrek Henry He's gonna be a
- 25:29free agent. D Hop. Yeah. So you're gonna see some people moving
- 25:33around, and I think it's just time for them to reset. But as
- 25:36far as from the Packers and Bears, the Packers they won seventeen to nine.
- 25:41Clint the playoffs, so Jordan Love, he's been on the heater ever
- 25:47since about week ten, week eleven, so, and I don't I don't
- 25:52know if you knew this. They're gonna be the youngest team to go into
- 25:56the playoffs since nineteen seventy four. So do you think that this is a
- 26:02good thing. Do you think that this is just a good thing for him
- 26:04and this is only going to be years to come, or do you think
- 26:08it's something like out of the ordinary, kind of a weird spot. Kirk
- 26:12Cousins was hurt. The Bears are going to get better get Killer Boillyams lines
- 26:17are going to be there. So what do you think? No, I
- 26:21don't I don't think so. I think this is a good spot for them
- 26:23because it shows that you made the right decision. I'm not gonna say the
- 26:26right decision, but you made a good decision going forward with Jordan Love,
- 26:30because Jordan Love's sure, Like for like a four week stretch, five week
- 26:33stretch, we had all our doubts like is he really the answer? And
- 26:36then he just closed the season out in like crazy good good motion, Like
- 26:41he looked like a veteran out there. He was making better decisions. And
- 26:44I think what's really health this team is Aaron Jones becoming healthy. Yeah,
- 26:47Like I always say, you win in the trenches, and Aaron Jones is
- 26:49able to run the ball really great right now. And then Jayden Reid has
- 26:53emerged with Christian Watson being injured. Jaden Reid has showed up for this team.
- 26:56He makes big plays. He doesn't get a lot of volume, but
- 26:59he makes plays when he gets the ball. I think that's what they have.
- 27:02They have a lot of playmakers because Romo Romeo Dobbs and the Red Zones
- 27:04pretty good. Christian Watson when he is healthy, is one of the biggest
- 27:07playmakers in the NFL already to this point in his career. So yeah,
- 27:12it's it's it's good to see them in this position. I let's just see
- 27:17what they do with their draft pick. But right now, if they could,
- 27:19I'm not gonna say they're gonna beat the Cowboys, but you never know
- 27:22what happens on a Sunday. It's any given Sunday, true, So they
- 27:26could have a great game and they could. What the Packers aren't afraid to
- 27:30do is throw the football, so they could really get into a shootout if
- 27:33they wanted to. If things go their way. I'm not gonna say they're
- 27:37gonna win. I don't think they're gonna win, but things could go their
- 27:38way one way or the other, and they could. They could really do
- 27:41something. Yeah, yeah, I know they definitely could. And I feel
- 27:45like what nobody's talking about, Like you said moving forward with Jordan Love,
- 27:49but he signed a four year, twenty million dollar contract a year, so
- 27:52four years, eighty million, it's gonna be a real cheap deal, and
- 27:56you're gonna be able to put a bunch of pieces around him. You're gonna
- 28:00be able to spend a bunch of money unlike what you weren't able to do
- 28:03with Aaron Rodgers. You're gonna get a better defense the following year. So
- 28:08they're in a really good spot right now. And just the development of Jordan
- 28:12Love even just throughout this season has been damn good and I think it's gonna
- 28:18be years to come too. But all right, as far as we're gonna
- 28:22go ahead and get these games out of the way. As far as these
- 28:26games that weren't playoff implications, so the Browns lost of the Bengals where arrest
- 28:33everybody, thirty one to fourteen. That was the final score. And then
- 28:37the Jets beat the Patriots seventeen to three, and then the Vikings beat the
- 28:44Lion or the Lions beat the Vikings thirty to twenty. Out of those three
- 28:48games, did you really take away anything anything that could lead into next year
- 28:52or playoff wise? I know the Lions are gonna be in there, but
- 28:56is there anything that you see that could lead into next year yours? I
- 29:04think we just need to see with the injury to Sam Laporta for the Detroit
- 29:07Lions, see how he heals up and if he's the same player going into
- 29:11the first week versus the Rams, because they're gonna need him. They're gonna
- 29:15need him really good of big time if they move on, because they're gonna
- 29:18run into some good defense. Sam Laporter is just another X factor on the
- 29:21field, probably having the greatest tight end rookie season of all time. Yeah,
- 29:25we've seen a lot of good rookie pass catchers. There's a lot of
- 29:26good rookies this year, but he's been at arguably at the top of all
- 29:30of them. If you really want to sit here, if we're gonna put
- 29:33them with the Puka's in the season Strouds. But I think there was a
- 29:37point where people were questioning if Dan Campbell should leave the starters out because they
- 29:41started getting hurt left and right. Like we saw Raymond go down, Laporta
- 29:45go down, even saw my boy Amanalal go down for a second, but
- 29:48he came back in being the sun god that he is, you know.
- 29:52But other than that, I think I think the Lions has showed that they
- 29:56can score a lot of points. And then I think for the Vikings,
- 30:00like the Vikings, they have some big decisions to make. Because Kirk Cousins
- 30:04announced that he would take a hometown discount, So do they keep because he's
- 30:10like, God blessed me with enough money already. I don't need the money.
- 30:11I just want to be a part of a good team. So it's
- 30:14just a matter of do you want to keep rolling with Kirk Cousins because Justin
- 30:17Jefferson already said I'm not I'm playing wherever Kirk plays. Yeah he did.
- 30:22Oh yeah, so you know that's a big do you do you anger your
- 30:26best player on the field? Do you do you make do you test that
- 30:29water or do you go roll with the guy that he trusts. That's just
- 30:32gonna be something to see going into the offseason. I think that you have
- 30:36to whatever whatever Justin Jefferson. Okay, even though Kirk Cousins he has taking
- 30:41a discount, all that money's going to Justin Jefferson. Let's be real,
- 30:45him and ceedee lamb, they're about to get paid ridiculous contracts something over the
- 30:51two. I think he's he's, well, he's gonna have to get paid
- 30:55this offseason since he wasn't a first round because you have no fit, your
- 30:59option on nothing. Yeah. So yeah, it's so next year he would
- 31:03that's really gonna be his last year on his deal, which that's not gonna
- 31:07happen. So yeah, he's gonna get paid. And yeah, let's see
- 31:11what Laporte is because Laporta that's a big blow to their team. And I
- 31:18I know that you have pieces around, but he just does so much just
- 31:21blocking and just being just a threat down the field and wanted a safety blanket.
- 31:25The tight end is a safety blanket for you. And then the only
- 31:30thing I could take away from the Jets, I know we don't do fantasy
- 31:33foot or we're not. We don't. This isn't fantasy football related. Brice
- 31:37Hall is gonna be a first round Fantasy football pick next year. He is.
- 31:41He's insane. Yeah, thirty seven carries. I think he had what
- 31:47was it one hundred and seventy or no, yeah, one hundred and seventy
- 31:51yards, Yeah, one hundred and seventy eight seventy eight. Yeah, So
- 31:55he's gonna be a first round pick. You're gonna get Aaron Rodgers next year.
- 31:59Well, hopefully he's there the whole season, but yeah, he's gonna
- 32:02be a first round pick. And honestly, I think I think he's gonna
- 32:07be top five, Josh, I think he's gonna be top five with all
- 32:12that volume. Well see when we me and you, because we are going
- 32:15to do our fantasy football projections and rankings and stuff like that, but we're
- 32:20gonna we're gonna release like draft guides and stuff. But it's gonna be pretty
- 32:25a lot of running backs going high. I think Kyrin Williams is going to
- 32:29work his way up to a top ten pick, top fifteen pick really because
- 32:31he so much volume. Yeah, he was like RB one, like RB
- 32:37two besides behind Christian mccaffys for most of the season, you know, and
- 32:40he was healthy. Yeah, so him, Breeze Hall, they're working their
- 32:45way up into these conversations. I think. I think we're gonna see a
- 32:49lot of a lot of second guessing too, because people took Tony Pollard early
- 32:54and like Jon early and all these guys. I think their stocks are hurting
- 33:00pretty big because the premium you paid for them. Even Jamior Gibbs to an
- 33:02extent, like Jamior Gibbs went pretty high, but yeah he did, but
- 33:07he didn't really produce till the second half of the season, which matters the
- 33:10most, I guess. But for the first half, if you had him,
- 33:13you were probably struggling. I had him, but I'm a genius,
- 33:15so I wasn't struggling. But for the average Joe, for the average Joe,
- 33:20you know, I bet you were. So. I think people are
- 33:22gonna really like dig deep this year because they don't want to make the same
- 33:25mistakes. And then Christian McCaffrey, I think is gonna be one in one,
- 33:29one and one next year, like easily, no questions about it.
- 33:32I think it's going to be so. I think for sure it's going to
- 33:36be CMC seed. He's going to be up there, justin Jeffers j Jedgie
- 33:40still goes top top three no matter what. Yeah, And I think Jamar
- 33:45Chase is gonna fall late first round. And then that's why I can see
- 33:49Burie. That's where I can see Burice because now he's ty Tyreek is top
- 33:53top ten, alm and Rall is going to be top ten. Yeah.
- 33:55Alne is going to be top ten in the top ten this year. Yeah.
- 34:02No, we won't have another Kelsey, Yeah no, we won't have
- 34:06another Kelsey going six to seven. But like they always say, as far
- 34:09as running backs, every time there's three or four running backs in the first
- 34:14round, there always seems to be a dip that year. And then where's
- 34:17when there's a bunch of wide receivers in the first round. The running backs
- 34:21they pop that year. And that's exactly what happened because you had Justin Jefferson,
- 34:25Tyreek Kill, Jamar Chase arbably be the first three. Maybe you didn't
- 34:30see him, see Ceedee Lamb. He was up there, Stefan Diggs,
- 34:36Davanta Adams, Garrett Wilson was even going in some first rounds. That's already
- 34:40seven. So if you have fourteen at most, that's half of it already,
- 34:45or if you're doing a ten man. So yeah, But as far
- 34:50as just a quick recap from the Bengals and Browns, do you think Jake
- 34:54Browning he deserves a starting job? Well, we did have the conversation like
- 35:00yeah, like you know who I would take him over, but we're not
- 35:07gonna get into that today. This is yeah, but Jake Browning, Jake
- 35:13Browning is a good quarterback. I mean, he's never been a bad quarterback
- 35:15and is in any of the fastest level of football he's ever played. I
- 35:20mean, for Christ's sakes, he was probably arguably up there with Kyler Murray
- 35:22as probably the top two greatest high school quarterbacks of all time if you really
- 35:28wanted to sit here, because Jake Browning through ninety one touchdowns his senior year
- 35:30and won two high school Football Player of the Year awards. Yeah so,
- 35:36and then at Washington he was good. He just Washington's just Washington at that
- 35:39time. You know, byron Chrip McDuffie, you know legends, but you
- 35:45know fast for our I think we've seen enough, like for sure, the
- 35:50backup whole career for sure, Like you put enough on question. Yeah that
- 35:52like he's gonna have a job in the NFL from someone somewhere. He's gonna
- 35:57have that premium price for backup. But as far as starter, I just
- 36:00think he fell off a little bit, Like with the picks for the like
- 36:04three games. Yeah, he was throwing a lot of picks. But other
- 36:07than that, he played great football. He really stepped in and it wasn't
- 36:10like Deacon Dunks. It was like, no, I'm putting the ball where
- 36:13it needs to be, I'm moving out of the hockey, I'm making big
- 36:15runs. So I think he's gonna stay on the Bengals next year for sure.
- 36:21But as a backup for Joe Burrow, but if he ever gets his
- 36:22opportunity, I'm pretty sure he gets a good look at Yeah. Yeah,
- 36:27no, he definitely will. I feel like he's the type of quarterback to
- 36:30like how Andy Dalton he was at the end of his career where it's kind
- 36:34of like a bridge quarterback, like, hey, we're bringing in a rookie,
- 36:37we want you to start at first, teach him the ropes whatever.
- 36:40I could see him doing. Rod Taylor, Yeah it's Tyroight, That's that's
- 36:44perfect. Yeah, it's Tyrod Taylor. But all right, as far as
- 36:46these next two games, which necessarily didn't involve playoff implications if something crazy didn't
- 36:52happen, the Seahawks and the Cardinals, in which the Seahawks won twenty one
- 36:57to twenty, and then the Falcons and Saints and what's the Saints they won
- 37:00forty eight to seventeen, And I know everybody they've been talking about as far
- 37:04as that victory formation, that or the fake victory formation which they hand it
- 37:09off to Jamal Williams get his first touchdown of the year, where they overruled
- 37:14Dennis Allen's victory formation. So what did you feel about that, Josh,
- 37:20Do you feel like that was uncalled for. Do you think that was fair?
- 37:24I don't care. Run up the score. Just don't do it against
- 37:28my team. Don't do it against my team. But but I don't care.
- 37:32I don't think anyone is to kneel. That's like getting on Madden.
- 37:36You're up, you get a pick and you you're by you're up by three.
- 37:40You don't knel the ball. You don't neel the ball on Madden.
- 37:43No, No, you play like the man. You play like the man.
- 37:46You try you pass the ball. Yeah, maybe you can. Maybe
- 37:50if you're a good runner, you can get in that big run, But
- 37:53but you passed the ball. Who cares if you throw a pick? This
- 37:55is this is the man's score. So as far as doing it a life,
- 38:00I don't care. Jamis Winston is a dog. He's like, nah,
- 38:05let me cook. Freak is like switched to like that. We love
- 38:08Jamal so much. We just love them, you know, you know.
- 38:13So I don't think Jamis is their next year. Dennis Allen is there,
- 38:15but yeah, but you know it was cool. I don't care. I
- 38:21really don't care. The Saints balled out in this game. I feel like
- 38:23Derek Carr has really come on strong. The last five weeks, but it
- 38:25doesn't matter. You know, they don't make the playoffs. So this team
- 38:30is getting old. Contracts are high. I just wonder where the Saints are
- 38:32gonna go. I don't know where they're gonna go. I think they're gonna
- 38:35have to get rid of a lot of players. They're gonna have to get
- 38:37rid of a lot of contracts, and that's gonna be big going forward because
- 38:40they're if they're getting up there in age, they're really getting up there in
- 38:44age. Alba Kamara is getting older. They have the receivers. You need
- 38:50another weapon next to Chris Alave. It can't just be Chris o'lave and someone
- 38:52else. I mean, she's he's good, but he's not gonna be like
- 38:55this. Ye're out yeah, like yeah. And then on the defense,
- 39:00old just old everywhere. The Mario Davis, kalay Is Campbell, Marshawn Lattimore,
- 39:07I mean marsha Lanemore is only like twenty seven, but still, you
- 39:09know, like he's banged up all the time. Then you have Tyron Matthew
- 39:15and Marcus May. You know, these guys are getting older, like they're
- 39:17just getting older. So you're gonna have to make a decision. It didn't
- 39:20work out, like the plan didn't work out, you know, so they're
- 39:23gonna have to do a whole reboot in my opinion. Sorry Breckon, y'all
- 39:28played good, but got didn't make the playoffs. Sorry, that's my shot
- 39:30to breakon today. That's my shot. But as far as the Falcons,
- 39:36Arthur Smith not there no more. Thank you, Lord Christ, all glory
- 39:39to the to the one above. I went to. I actually went to
- 39:44church this morning and I prayed and said thank you like like I was,
- 39:47like, I went. I walked in like I always like I do,
- 39:52and I was like set. Their first thing I did when I pulled down
- 39:54the little step to get my knees on, and the Catholic did the little
- 39:58sign of the cross and was like, Lord God, thank you for firing
- 40:01Arthur Smith. I couldn't ask for anything more. But yeah, so yeah,
- 40:08so uh, hopefully Bejon and Drake London and Kyle Pitt's get the ball
- 40:14and they get a new quarterback. I'm really hoping for that. So that's
- 40:17just something monitor for the Falcons. Arthur Smith is gone. He's gone,
- 40:21ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, finally he's gone. And we'll see what they
- 40:24can to become like a head coach for like the Commanders or like freaking Chargers,
- 40:30Like, oh yeah, it's gonna be Joshua Kelly show jeez. Oh
- 40:37no, we don't need Justin Herbert, we don't need Keenan Allen or Mike
- 40:39Williams. He'll he'll involve Quinton Johnston more than those two. Joshua Palmer involved
- 40:46for real. But like you were saying with Madden, I just want to
- 40:51give a quick shout out Mark, I beat you and Madden after you were
- 40:53up. It was actually the Niners embarrass So josh he was up. He
- 40:59was up twenty to fourteen at half right, and you know what the final
- 41:02score was. It was thirty eight to twenty. What I end up making
- 41:09a bit of hop on with bro Me, Marco, Damien Bobo. I
- 41:15don't have next I don't have next Gen. I don't have next Gen.
- 41:16That's the thing about it. I went over to his house or their house,
- 41:22and they have he has next Gen. He has a PS five and
- 41:24he ended up throwing seven picks in the ball game. So out of lock
- 41:30in for a second, I to lock in. I wasn't gonna lose that.
- 41:35But no, as far as with the game, I think the fake
- 41:39nil it was worth it. Worth it. You run at the score.
- 41:43This isn't high school. This is in college. Your professionals here. If
- 41:47if you feel that bad about it, then stop it. I don't care.
- 41:52Maybe you shouldn't have lined up in victory formation, maybe you could have
- 41:54just ran the ball. That would have been a little bit more respectful.
- 41:59But still, at the end of the day, you get it. It
- 42:02doesn't matter. And I think there's more shows that they don't have respect for
- 42:07Dennis Allen because they said this was a team decision, so they basically overruled
- 42:13Dennis Allen's authority. So if anything, that shows that they don't respect him,
- 42:17and maybe they should be getting another head coach. And as far as
- 42:22from the Seattle and Cardinals game, I know the Cardinals lost, but I
- 42:25don't know if you knew this, Josh, So. I know the Cardinals
- 42:29they only had four wins this year, but three of those wins came against
- 42:32playoff teams, so and those all happened, well, well, no,
- 42:37Kyler Murray was there for two of them. So they beat the Cowboys obviously
- 42:43the Eagles, and then the Steelers. I think that they're going to be
- 42:46a damn fund team, fun team next year. And I really like Jonathan
- 42:51Gannon and what he's bringing there. And we'll talk about drafting sucks. Did
- 43:00you see that when he did that? When he met Rondo Moore was like
- 43:06yeah, he walked up to him. He walked up to me. He's
- 43:07like, he's like me, you sure? So I didn't see that at
- 43:14all, Yeah, and like like he just pointed at him, like yeah,
- 43:22and then I don't know, that was funny. I just like always
- 43:24remember that every time someone brings up Jonathan Gannon, like when he met them,
- 43:29when he was like on his first day in Arizon. Okay, okay,
- 43:31okay, I thought you were talking about in the game. I thought
- 43:34you No, he did when he first met them, when he was like
- 43:37he was like yeah, yeah, it's hilarious. Bro. No, No,
- 43:43they they got a good future. And Kyler Murray he's he's a franchise
- 43:45quarterback. But as far as these last three games that we're going to talk
- 43:50about right here, which'all have playoff implications, the Buccaneers beat the Panthers nine
- 43:54to zero. The Texans beat the Colts. It was a win to get
- 43:59in situation. They won twenty three to nineteen, and the Steelers beat the
- 44:02Ravens seventeen to ten without the starters. So all these games had playoff implications.
- 44:09Out of these teams right here, which one do you think has the
- 44:13biggest chance to make some noise in the playoffs? Okay, so the Buccaneers.
- 44:21As far as the Buccaneers, I feel like I had a lot of
- 44:22confidence like coming like a couple of weeks ago, but I feel like recently
- 44:30they kind of fallen off. They're kind of fallen off a little bit with
- 44:32how powerful of an offense they are. But the Panthers do have a good
- 44:37defense. That's the one thing the Panthers do have is good defense. And
- 44:39then I forgot the other teams. You freaking told me what were the other
- 44:45teams? The Texans really wanted to talk about the I really wanted to talk
- 44:49about the Freakings. No, I know, I know it's a big hill.
- 44:53I love my guy, but tech, Yeah, Texans. Honestly,
- 45:00I think the Texans have the best shot. The way that Nick I get
- 45:02c J. Stroud. We can tar harp on how good CJ. Stroud
- 45:06is for as long as we can, but it's really what's around him.
- 45:10The defense is good with Jalen Petrie, Devin's, Devin Singletary, Derek Stingly
- 45:16even though he does play for them, Devin Sanlitary, but Derek Stingly,
- 45:20Will Anderson Junior, all those guys like they they know how to play together,
- 45:24especially underneath the Miko Ryans. You're gonna get good defense no matter what
- 45:29Demiko Ryan's gonna make. And he's really changed the culture there. But on
- 45:30the other side, bro Nico Collins is balling like he's balling right now,
- 45:36like when he is on with c J. Stroud. They are a force
- 45:39to be reckoned with. And then when CJ. Imagine if Tank Dell was
- 45:42still healthy, like if Tank Dell was still in for the season, like
- 45:45they would be. Honestly, I wouldn't want the Chiefs to play them.
- 45:49I wouldn't want the Chiefs to play them because I don't think our defense is
- 45:52great, but our offense would not be able to keep up. So I'm
- 45:55okay with that. But the as far as all that, I think the
- 45:59Texans, out of allthay of these teams, have the best opportunity to make
- 46:01noise in the playoffs. Yeah, and so I think this the Steelers and
- 46:06Buccaneers. They really took care of business here because it was not Panthers,
- 46:10it wasn't backups. But they're the worst team in the league. And Bravens
- 46:14they weren't starting anybody, so they should have done that. As far as
- 46:16TJ. White, we'll talk about that in a second, as far as
- 46:20him not being healthy, but I want to talk about this Texans and Colts
- 46:22game. So literally, the very first play that the Texans offense had had
- 46:28on the field, it was a seventy five yard touchdown and CJ. Stroud
- 46:30just keeps proving himself time and time again, and even Demico Ryans even situationally.
- 46:37So and the last thing that I want to talk about, so I
- 46:40can't think of the backup running backs name, but obviously it was fourth and
- 46:44one, fourth and two. I don't remember exactly what it was for the
- 46:46game. You run like a little little dump out to the running back and
- 46:53it was a bad throw. But do you agree with Shane steich in there
- 46:58as far as keeping Jonathan Taylor out of the game. No, Why is
- 47:04your star player out of the game like the guy you paid all this money
- 47:07to at the beginning of the season, who left this game with injury and
- 47:10came back and still bald. You know, like, you don't do that,
- 47:14Like you need your best players in the best moments at the best times
- 47:17in the game, and they just didn't do that. I understand the guy
- 47:21dropped it. He dropped it, but the ball was bad, Like it
- 47:22was a bad ball. If I know bad, if I know bad people
- 47:28that don't know how to catch footballs, you're talking to him. I know
- 47:30bad football. I know no, I know drop passes. I've seen forty
- 47:35two of them this season. So you know, as far as that he
- 47:42has to make that play, but you have to throw a better Gardner.
- 47:44Yeah, you even saw Saint Stichen like this is not on me, this
- 47:46is on you. Like he told Garner coming off the freaking heat coming off
- 47:52the field, he was like, this is on you. He pulled the
- 47:55is not on us, It's on the players. It's one flip. It
- 48:00was you, bro, It was you. So you know you gotta give
- 48:05it to Jonathan Taylor. You gotta let your best player make a play,
- 48:08or even Michael Pittman, Like why is it Michael Pittman or Josh Downs the
- 48:12one making this play, you give it to your third stream running back,
- 48:15you know. So it's just unfortunate. But yeah, it's just unfortunate.
- 48:21So to see that, especially that guy, he really owned up to it
- 48:24in his interview. He's like, I just gotta be man like. Yeah,
- 48:29you know, like I commend him a lot, but you gotta give
- 48:31it to Jonathan Taylor in those situations. Yeah, yeah, no, you
- 48:36definitely do. And Okay, I say this, I don't necessarily disagree with
- 48:40Shane Stike in here. I think this is clearly I know there was pressure
- 48:45in your face, but you knew exactly what was gonna happen those six on
- 48:49the line, so you knew there was an extra rusher coming that was a
- 48:52blocker. I think he could honestly score there. If he missed that defender.
- 48:57He was easily getting the first down. So there's deception in it.
- 49:01Obviously it came back to bite them. So I think even if that's Jonathan
- 49:06Taylor there, he's not gonna catch that ball. I don't think. So
- 49:08that's just me on how bad that ball was. But at the end of
- 49:13the day, sometimes execute or you could drop the perfect play, but if
- 49:17it's not executed, right then, it doesn't matter the players. They still
- 49:22have to play. But all right, since we talked about the games,
- 49:25we're gonna kind of go over the draft order and over the coaches potential coach
- 49:30hirings. So I'm gonna list the top ten right here. So the first
- 49:37overall pick is the Bears, which got from the Panthers, Second is the
- 49:39Washington Commanders, Third is the Patriots, fourth is the Cardinals, Fifth is
- 49:45the Chargers, six is the Giants, seventh is the Titans, eighth Falcons,
- 49:49nine Bears their own pick, and tenth is the New York Jets.
- 49:53So do you kind of who do you think is gonna kind of be us
- 49:59a pri team here as far as far as trying to trade up for Marvin
- 50:04Harrison Junior Rock Bowers, O Dunze or or potentially even as far as the
- 50:09whole Bear situation, as far as Caleb Williams or are they gonna try to
- 50:14trade up for Drake may somebody? What do you think I can see the
- 50:28I kind of feel like Atlanta makes a move. I feel like they're gonna
- 50:32make a move to move up to draft a quarterback, and I think they're
- 50:36either gonna go with the with the I don't see. The thing is with
- 50:42Chicago. I see them trading Justin Fields. I don't think you pass up
- 50:45on Caleb Williams. I think they take Justin Fields and they trade for that
- 50:49Atlanta pick, so they have three picks in the top ten. I think
- 50:53there. I think that's probably the move that they're gonna do. And I
- 50:54can see that happening. Okay, so you think Justin Fields he's worth the
- 50:59top to pick, even with having to pay him. Yeah, you don't
- 51:05get quarterbacks. Sometimes quarterbacks don't even live up to what Justin Fields has done
- 51:08in the NFL. So they're going to take the risk of what you've already
- 51:13seen from Justin Fields with inefficient coaching and inefficient weapons. Or are you going
- 51:17to take the risk on a guy you've never seen play in the NFL?
- 51:21You know. So that's how I see it, That's how I feel it
- 51:23about it. I honestly see Justin Fields is going to be a really hot
- 51:28ticket in the around these top eighteen picks. Like I can see him.
- 51:32I can see New York, Atlanta, Minnesota, Las Vegas, even New
- 51:44Orleans make a move for Justin Fields. And then I think that's going to
- 51:46really dictate where everyone goes because Katle Williams, I can see him going to
- 51:51Chicago. But I think Atlanta's the biggest spot to land a quarterback right now
- 51:54because they got the old line, they got a defense, they got running
- 51:58backs, they got receivers, well, they got one receiver, but they
- 52:00can load up. They can load up later on in the rat they could
- 52:02load this one's stacked, like we can go. I can name you fifteen
- 52:08twelve receivers in his NFL Draft act. Yeah, possibly go in the in
- 52:13the first round. But some people are gonna fall just to being overly stacked.
- 52:15So I think Atlanta's gonna make a big move for a quarterback. Yeah,
- 52:21I could definitely see that and it Let's let's not play around here.
- 52:25Let's the Bears are gonna draft KILEB. Williams. You cannot pass up Justin
- 52:30Fields may be good, but you could pass up on a generational talent here,
- 52:35because if he's anything even close to Patrick Mahomes, then you're gonna regret
- 52:40if you kept Justin Fields. Keeping Justin already passed up on Patrick Mahomes,
- 52:46So you know you can't pass Patrick Mahomes twice. Not say the's Patrick Mahomes,
- 52:51but his play style, and I don't care. You would have to
- 52:55because he has a fifth year option, which is twenty one million, and
- 52:59then if the balls out next year the way the market's going, so I'm
- 53:04just saying from Dak's perspective, he's gonna get fifty five to sixty. Justin
- 53:07Fields would easily get forty easily, not even including if he makes the playoffs.
- 53:13Has a big jump, like, look what they paid Jalen Hurts after
- 53:15one good year. I know he made the super Bowl, but just one
- 53:17good year. So yeah, it's it's gonna be a tough, tough thing.
- 53:23And I definitely see Atlanta doing that because they have a bunch of young
- 53:27players. They're not really paying anybody too crazy. They're gonna have a bunch
- 53:30of cap space, so it'd be worth it. So yeah, Okay,
- 53:35I got a question. Okay, what's that? So with Washington and New
- 53:38England sitting right there, New England wants a quarterback, They're gonna get a
- 53:43quarterback, no doubt in my mind they're gonna get a quarterback. But the
- 53:46question is, is Washington gonna spoil that party and take dre May Drake May
- 53:51at number two because I don't I don't know if Eric the Enemy's gonna move
- 53:58up to become head coach and keep Sam Howe somehow sold a lot of flashes,
- 54:02but I still don't think there's a lot of trust in him from the
- 54:06organization as a whole. So do you take the do you draft or do
- 54:10you I can see Washington trading back to three and letting New England take Drake
- 54:15May and they get it more assets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, So
- 54:20I think that I just feel like, either Caleb Williams or Drake May,
- 54:25those are two prospects that you shouldn't pass up on you you shouldn't. Personally
- 54:32me, if I was in the commander situation, I would draft. I
- 54:36would draft Drake May. But I don't think that's gonna happen. But it
- 54:38all depends. I feel like, if the enemy becomes the head coach,
- 54:43they're drafting the quarterback because he gets his own pick bi enemy. He didn't
- 54:45get his own pick as far as Sam Howe was already there. But if
- 54:50it's a new person, they may say, hey, we may give Sam
- 54:52Williams or Sam how another chance, or we'll wait till next year or or
- 54:58something. But yeah, honestly, the way it's the way it's looking,
- 55:05I think Jayden Daniels he's rising up the boards right now. So I wouldn't
- 55:09be surprised if there's three quarterbacks in the top ten. I'm not gonna go
- 55:14as far as saying top five, Well, well, PFF has Michael Pennix
- 55:17going in the top five right now. They have him in the top five,
- 55:22maybe twelve, I say, I say one or two, they have
- 55:24him in top ten. I just reckon they have him in top ten going
- 55:27to a top ten. That would be interesting right there because he is he
- 55:35is older, he is ready to win, and he could throw the ball.
- 55:37But now New York, New York has a lot of questions, like
- 55:42a lot of questions to answer. Do you go do you do you?
- 55:46Do you add a Joe Alt? Do you go for a receiver? Do
- 55:51you go for a quarterback? Like they're stuck in such a no man's land.
- 55:55I feel like on offense, because you don't have to pay Saquon,
- 55:59you're gonna have to pay say coin after this year. If not, he's
- 56:00gone, like he's going to a contender, you know. So it's just
- 56:05a matter of New York has a lot of question marks around around their whole
- 56:09team, except for I think their defense. Their defense they can live with
- 56:14for a little bit longer. Yeah, I mean you got des Or Lawrence,
- 56:15Deontay Banks, a couple of good other guys that I think they have
- 56:19a good defense. Yeah. Yeah, it's the offense that needs questions.
- 56:22And then people were saying, Brian Dables in the hot seat, hot seats
- 56:25see it. Yeah, he goes for one year from being coach of the
- 56:30year to the next year being not even considered anymore. You know, they're
- 56:35tripping. So I just wonder where they're gonna go. I think because Daniel
- 56:39Jones, you get out of the contract after not next year or not this
- 56:44upcoming year, but the following year after that. Maybe I'm just giving a
- 56:47suggestion here. Maybe you draft a quarterback, let him sit a year so
- 56:52he doesn't get beat up behind that terrible offensive line. You get another year
- 56:55to draft another year in the day ball system. Then you let them off,
- 56:59let them off the chain, and then Daniel Jones he's released because it
- 57:04was basically a two year deal guaranteed. So this is the second year of
- 57:07his two year deal for Daniel Jones. But since we're kind of talking about
- 57:12it already, out of these, so let's just say the top six,
- 57:16we'll just kind of give like a way too early Mark draft, way too
- 57:20early Marck draft. So for number one, the Bears, obviously this is
- 57:24pretty simple, right you have Caleb Williams. Yeah, I have Kayla Williams
- 57:29going number one. Okay, So number two and yes, we could do
- 57:31trades, hypothetical trades here. So number two, which would be the commander
- 57:37New England. They trade up and they select two Drake May Drake May.
- 57:44So. I think that the commanders they keep their pick, and I think
- 57:50I think that they select Drake May because I think the enemy is going to
- 57:52become the head coach. So I say give me Drake may So for the
- 57:58third overall third overall pick, yours would be commanders. Who would they take?
- 58:02I think right here, ah crap, See the commanders have me in
- 58:07a standstill, like they I in my mind can't wrap around who they will
- 58:12take. So I think as of right now, I'm gonna go with uh.
- 58:17I can see Jaden Daniels going right here. I think I don't think
- 58:22Jadon Daniels and Drake May's like maybe like separation is as big as I can
- 58:29see. Eric b Enemy like kind of like, oh, I wonder what
- 58:31I can do with a with a with a Jaden Daniels. So you know,
- 58:36I have jack and Daniels going number three. So even though we don't
- 58:40have the exact same team there, because I have the Patriots. I think
- 58:44the Patriots they would select Jayden Daniels because you already see that Lamar Jackson mold
- 58:50him about to win the second MVP Potencie Bill Belichick being out, I think
- 58:53he's gonna be out the door, which we're going to get into in a
- 58:58second. But I think that they select Aiden Daniels and just restart. Then
- 59:01the fourth the fourth pick right here, which is the Arizona Cardinals. I
- 59:06think that's pretty simple, right, Yeah, Marvin Harrison Jr. Yeah,
- 59:10Marvin Harrison Junior. And the fifth overall pick here is the Chargers. Do
- 59:16they go offensive line? You think they go brock Bowers? Yeah? I
- 59:22think they go brock Bowers mm hmm. So or yeah, I want to
- 59:30go Joe old m but from Notre Dame, the the lineman. But uh,
- 59:37I just feel like someone's gonna look at it like, let's get him
- 59:39another weapon, you know, yeah, Brock Bowers. So I think because
- 59:45they have Quentin Johnson there, I think that they're gonna take for Shano instead
- 59:50and potentially move him to guard because Corey Lensley, their center, just got
- 59:54her or just retired. Bro they got in this mob draft rock Bear's falling
- 1:00:00to eighteen. Okay, that's that's ridiculous. We're not We're not even gonna
- 1:00:07mention that that's that's ridiculous. Okay, well we might as well just do
- 1:00:10the top ten because we're basically halfway there. And then the Giants number six,
- 1:00:16George, you have for Joalt see out. I have Joalt going here
- 1:00:22too, alongside Andrew Thomas. You have two supposedly good tackles. Then the
- 1:00:27seventh throw off pick tight ends new head coach. Obviously you have for Shando
- 1:00:32going here at seven. So I think that what Levis was getting banged up
- 1:00:37out there, man, so they should take offensive line. But I think
- 1:00:42they're gonna get him a receiver. I think that they're gonna go Romeo Dunze
- 1:00:45right here and get him another piece. Okay. Then the eighth overall pick,
- 1:00:52where things can get interesting. Maybe Justin Fields get traded because the Falcons
- 1:00:55have this pick. So so what do you think about this? Right here,
- 1:01:00nath O raw pick, Well, Justin Fields in my mock draft gets
- 1:01:02traded to the Atlanta Falcons. So number eight I'm going to take you just
- 1:01:08drafted. Caleb Williams was bringing Romo Dun's. Romo Dune's going number eight for
- 1:01:13me to Chicago. So okay, I think Justin Fields he can get traded
- 1:01:20to the or he will get traded to the Falcons. But I just don't
- 1:01:23know if it's going to be first round pick. Maybe some Okay, I'm
- 1:01:27gonna just say that, maybe they get compensation back, so I would have
- 1:01:31right here, number eight, I'd say Molik Neighbors. Molik Neighbors goes to
- 1:01:36the Chicago Bears right here, then the ninth O raw pick, which it
- 1:01:40would be the Chicago Bears again, or you know what I could honestly see,
- 1:01:47I could see the Falcons and Bears switching. Justin Fields going to the
- 1:01:51Falcons and then and then they added an extra second round pick, so Justin
- 1:01:57Fields basically goes for a swap in the first round and then they give them
- 1:02:00a second round pick. That's what I could see. Okay, so I'll
- 1:02:04have so I'll have the Bears going up to eight, Falcons, going to
- 1:02:07nine. I'll have Bears taking Melik neighbors, and then nine, I'll have
- 1:02:13the Falcons. I'll have them. I'll have them or you know what it's
- 1:02:22it's part of the wrong thing since I'm changing it. I'll have Bears taking
- 1:02:25Bowers rock Bowers, and then i'll have nine fouc or geez, I keep
- 1:02:30getting Yeah, nine Falcons, I'll have them taking Melik neighbors. Okay,
- 1:02:36So right here, I have the Bears staying at nine. I think they're
- 1:02:38gonna load up with some top picks here and then honestly, they're gonna spoil
- 1:02:44another New York Jets tackle for them because last year, I know they wanted
- 1:02:46Darnell Wright and Anton Harrison Junior like so bad, and then they had to
- 1:02:51settle for what's his face, Will McDonald I think it was McDonald. Yeah,
- 1:02:54they had to settle for him. So I think number nine, then
- 1:02:59the the Chicago Bears are gonna select. Tell ya, c Fuaga, the
- 1:03:02tackle from from Oregon State, and I can see him going at number nine
- 1:03:07and is pull him the Jets another tackle, so they're gonna be stuck trying
- 1:03:12to repair a line that's non existent. That would that would be so funny,
- 1:03:19honestly. But so number ten is the Jets here, and obviously Jets
- 1:03:25they need offensive line. I see the Jets they take whole flatt on't Butcher's
- 1:03:31name. J C. Latham from Alabama. He is a tackle. You
- 1:03:37just need somebody, You just need somebody else out there. Makai Beckton.
- 1:03:39He he gets bangs banged up too much, or he gets banged up too
- 1:03:45much, can't stawn the field, Elijah vera Tucker. You just get another
- 1:03:47guy who could potentially protect Aaron Rodgers. Who's your tenth over op pick?
- 1:03:52Well, see, I'm gonna take the I think they'd go for the reach
- 1:03:57on j. C. Lalam right here from Alabama. I was thinking a
- 1:04:01key on Coleman would be nice. Go here at number ten, But I
- 1:04:05think the offensive line struggles are just too much, Like it's just too much
- 1:04:10for the Jets to pass up on another tackle because their defense, their defense
- 1:04:14doesn't need any help, no help at all. So number ten, I
- 1:04:16think they go. I think they go lay them right here. It's just
- 1:04:21crazy. Do you think that one of these teams, because I think Dallas
- 1:04:26Turner, It's it's crazy, you have all offense, Dallas defensive. Yeah,
- 1:04:32but the thing is the thing is the edge. The defense is good
- 1:04:35in this draft, like it's good, but it's not like great, like
- 1:04:40it's not it's not screaming someone like off the board. You know, it's
- 1:04:45just like, oh, yeah, let's just we can settle for this guy,
- 1:04:47you know. And even Jared Verse, Jared Versus up there. You
- 1:04:50know, it's just a no one's screaming like, oh pick me, pick
- 1:04:58me, you know. So I think these guys, these teams are just
- 1:05:00gonna fill their needs. And then a lot of these teams don't need defense,
- 1:05:05like entirely. Yeah. I think the closest team team to needing defense
- 1:05:11maybe Arizona. But Arizona and they're not gonna take yeah Washington or even a
- 1:05:17tackle. Yeah, but Washington is not passing on a quarterback or a weapon,
- 1:05:21you know. Yeah. And then uh see Tennessee maybe, but they're
- 1:05:27too young on offense like Ta Jay Spears, you know, Will Levis,
- 1:05:30Traylon Burke's always injured, Kyle Phillips. You know, you need you need
- 1:05:34some you need some help on offense. And then Chicago they're gonna address O
- 1:05:40line in mind, in my mind, draft there addressing quarterback, O line
- 1:05:43and receiver. So yeah, it's just uh the closest like and Jets need
- 1:05:49no defense, so yeah, they I think I think number eleven, that
- 1:05:54eleven spot with Minnesota may address defense right there. Or they could just go
- 1:05:58key on Coleman and load up with Coleman and Jay Jettis and freaking Jordan.
- 1:06:03Oh my goodness, that would be geez who needs the running back they also
- 1:06:09need. So I can see Nate Wiggins going right here, kool aid mcinstry,
- 1:06:13Yeah, I can see that. I can see that happening. And
- 1:06:15then I'm excited to talk about Yeah, but man, it's gonna be fun
- 1:06:23leading up to We're already excited talking about drafting, isn't It's it's play playoff
- 1:06:28of time. But before we get into the matchups, we're gonna just talk
- 1:06:30about the the teams that fired their head coaches or let go of their head
- 1:06:34coaches. Who who needs head coaches? So obviously you have the tight ends,
- 1:06:41Then you have the Chargers who do need a GM as well. Then
- 1:06:44you have the Raiders question Mark Antonio Pierce may or may not have the job
- 1:06:47Panthers who need a GM two. Then you have the Falcons and commanders.
- 1:06:51Out of those six spots right there, which one is the most enticing to
- 1:06:57you? The team with Justin Herbert as their quarterback. I feel like that's
- 1:07:03gonna be the hottest job on the market, probably the hottest job in a
- 1:07:08couple of years. And we're really maybe that we're really gonna stay Dallas job.
- 1:07:12Yeah, yeah, yeah, yes, it's a Dallas job. Really,
- 1:07:15it would be the most sought after job because they're probably the most complete
- 1:07:18team that doesn't have a great head coach, and that's gonna be mouthwatering the
- 1:07:24people, you know, And just a matter of which way you want to
- 1:07:27go, because Ben Johnson the enemy would probably be best for Justin Herbert's progression,
- 1:07:32But yeah, do you also want Justin Herbert's good enough? Apparently in
- 1:07:39other people's opinions that are Chiefs fans that that he that he doesn't need an
- 1:07:45offensive minded coach, that you couldn't He's so good you could possibly go towards
- 1:07:48defensive mind with like a Belichick or something like that. And but Jim Harbaugh
- 1:07:55is available. You know, Mike Rabel's available. This is this is a
- 1:07:59loaded head coaching carousel right now. So it's like the Chargers job is the
- 1:08:04most attractive, for sure. And then you have we can name them.
- 1:08:06I don't think Austin Ecker is gonna be there next year, but you have
- 1:08:13you have Keenan Allen, Mike williams Uh Justin Herbert Khalil Mack. I don't
- 1:08:17know kil maxi Freedom. But you have Joey Bosa for sure. Yeah,
- 1:08:21I think that's Sante Samuel needs to get paid. You have Derwin James,
- 1:08:24you know. So it's the most attractive. Yeah, you have literally the
- 1:08:28most attractive job. Yeah. And I would say the Seconds Angeles, Yeah,
- 1:08:33yeah, you you have all the perks there, and they willn't they're
- 1:08:36willing to spend the money. But I'd say the second most attractive job right
- 1:08:41here would have to be that Atlanta Falcons, which we brought up as far
- 1:08:45as as far as potentially getting justin fields or maybe getting a quarterback. You
- 1:08:49have a young team there, you have a solid defense after signing Jesse bass
- 1:08:55he baits he did Wonders their top ten offensive line. You just think he
- 1:08:59plays camp does what do you? Oh, yeah, Kalas Campbell. Yeah,
- 1:09:03he was on the Falcons. He's completely forgot. He's a good he's
- 1:09:08a big piece on their interior. Yeah yeah. But he also is older,
- 1:09:12so yeah, that's what I'm saying, Like he could be retiring soon.
- 1:09:15Yeah, that's true. We're playing to the chiefs. No, let's
- 1:09:20let's let's not get there. Every page it wants to be a chief you
- 1:09:24know, Yeah, okay, okay, son. How how come none of
- 1:09:29the good wide wanted to say that they don't want to be here. They
- 1:09:35probably want to be there, but we just don't got the means to get
- 1:09:40them there. Well we're gonna get into that in a second. But so
- 1:09:45we usually always say what's the most attractive job? But out of these jobs
- 1:09:49right here, which one is the least attractive? Which one do you think
- 1:09:53the head coaches are like, if I don't have to get that job,
- 1:09:57I won't get it. The tendency titan easily for me, Like like Panthers,
- 1:10:03Bryce Young, like you have a foundational piece right there, and then
- 1:10:08you could always go and resign Brian Burds to a lucrative deal. You can
- 1:10:11you can resign Jeremy Chin, you can hopefully j C. Horn gets a
- 1:10:15new body and stays healthy for probably probably not, but Falcons b Jhon Drake,
- 1:10:24Lynn and Kyle Pitts, Jesse Bates like Commanders Sterry Terry if he stays,
- 1:10:30John Dawson, Curtis, Samuel b Rob, Antonio Gibson, who I
- 1:10:35don't know who is gonna be there next year. So yeah, you have
- 1:10:40Jonathan Allen, Cameron curl and just kidding, but you have you have,
- 1:10:47you have Opportunity Raiders, Davante freaking Jacobe Myers, Zamir White, come along,
- 1:10:55come along strong, Michael marri So you have these other teams have something
- 1:11:00for the Titans. They're just old, like they're too old, like Jeffrey
- 1:11:04Simmons, great, Will Levis, question mark, Treylon Burke's question mark,
- 1:11:10Tajy Spears good, but question mark. I think that's the least attractive job
- 1:11:14for head coaches. It's gonna be they're gonna have to do a lot of
- 1:11:15convincing and pay them on a lot of money to take that job. I
- 1:11:18think that the so this would be the second, uh least attractive job.
- 1:11:26I think it has to be the Panthers for me due attractive. No,
- 1:11:30I think the Titans are the second, like the second most. I think
- 1:11:33number one is the Panthers, and the reason being you put all your foundation
- 1:11:39into Bryce Young. So if you're not developing Bryce Young, your future is
- 1:11:44screwed. And not to mention, you have a hot head owner who not
- 1:11:48only threw water on one of the fans. I don't know if you saw
- 1:11:53that, but not only is he doing that, budd, he's fired two
- 1:11:57coaches in the past three seasons. Yes, So, so he's a real
- 1:12:02impatient, real impatient. Huh. Who was the coach last year? So
- 1:12:09Frank Wright got hired this year? Remember? And then the one before?
- 1:12:14Oh my, was it Steve? No? What Steve Steve Wolke's Yeah,
- 1:12:18Steve Wolkes was an in term because they fired who did they fire? Boy?
- 1:12:27I don't remember. So you went through three coaches in three coaches in
- 1:12:30two years. That says a lot about that. So and your GM is
- 1:12:35fired. So you're gonna have to clean house Bryce Young. He's gonna have
- 1:12:41to. You're you're really gonna have to depend on Bryce Bryce Young's foundation or
- 1:12:46him being the whole foundation. And even though you have a bunch of salary
- 1:12:51cap. There's only so much you could do with free agency, and people
- 1:12:55they're gonna see it's not that attractive. So is there anything y else you
- 1:13:00want to take away as far as with this before we get into some playoff
- 1:13:02football. Nah, I think we pretty much carvered all bases of every single
- 1:13:06team. Oh yeah, yeah we Oh wait, okay, so usually we
- 1:13:12wait till the end of the end of the episode, but our so called
- 1:13:15MVPs of the week, we're gonna go ahead and say them right now.
- 1:13:18So like we do, we do it every week. Best performance of the
- 1:13:21week, Josh, who is your so called MVP of the week. It's
- 1:13:25not necessarily the best performance, but it's just like the coolest thing that happened.
- 1:13:30I think Pokinaku, I think he's gonna be a show called MVP of
- 1:13:32the week just because he broke the rookie receptions and receiving record, receiving yards
- 1:13:39record, and that's cool to see because he was a fifth round draft pick,
- 1:13:43kind of written off like a little bit like, oh, he's gonna
- 1:13:45be one of those guys that gets drafted doesn't pan out. But no,
- 1:13:47he is their number one receiver now. Like Cooper Cup is number two,
- 1:13:51Like it's not even a question. I understand Cooper Cup maybe getting all the
- 1:13:55attention, but even when Cooper Cup was out for this most of the season,
- 1:13:58Pokakua was still doing the same exact things and balling like and more like.
- 1:14:02So it was just cool to see what he's been able to accomplish this
- 1:14:05season in such a short span of time. Because there's gonna be I don't
- 1:14:09necessarily can't he necessarily say his scheme, but some of the catches he makes
- 1:14:14and the routes he runs like. He's not the fastest, he's not the
- 1:14:16biggest, he's not the strongest, but he knows how the ball and all
- 1:14:20around the socquetball player. Yeah, he's a good ball player and he just
- 1:14:24gets the job done. And so called him Apa of the Week maybe the
- 1:14:28year who kunaku. Yeah, it's hard to disagree with that, but I'm
- 1:14:31gonna have to go with my man. Dak Prescott here Dak Prescott thirty one
- 1:14:35for thirty six two hundred and seventy nine yards, four touchdowns, a pick
- 1:14:39which it was kind of just a pick that happened because the lineman tipped it
- 1:14:44up. This dude just been balling all year and and at worst the second
- 1:14:49MVP voting, he's gonna be on one of the All Pro teams, whether
- 1:14:55it's first or second. Still played as one of the best quarterbacks all year.
- 1:14:58But honorable mention not just because they're the Cowboys are playing them, but
- 1:15:01Jordan Love twenty seven for thirty two three and a sixteen yards two tudies,
- 1:15:06that dude was bawling And yeah, no, Dak, he he deserved it,
- 1:15:12and that's probably the only award he's probably gonna win. So yeah,
- 1:15:16but all right, let's get into this playoff picture here, So we're gonna
- 1:15:21go over all these games, just break down, give a little bit of
- 1:15:25analysis as far as who do you think's gonna win and why so, as
- 1:15:29far as in the playoff picture, it's finally official. In the NFC,
- 1:15:32we have the Niners as a one seed, finishing twelve and five, Cowboys
- 1:15:35as a two seed, finishing twelve and five, Lions also finishing twelve,
- 1:15:40twelve and five as a three seed, The Buccaneers are nine to eight as
- 1:15:45a four seed, and then the wild card five, six and seven goes
- 1:15:47from the Eagles eleven to six, eleven and six Rams are ten and seven.
- 1:15:51Packers are nine and eight, And you want to introduce the AFC.
- 1:15:57Okay, let me get into that. I just have the bracket set up
- 1:16:00right here. Okay on AFC. AFC Number one Baltimore Ravens, with a
- 1:16:04thirteen to four record, won their division. Buffalo Bills won their division in
- 1:16:09the last week of the season. Eleven and six. Number two seed.
- 1:16:12Number three seed is my Kansas City Chiefs ten and six win the AFC West
- 1:16:15for the eighth straight year. You know, so come ind us. Number
- 1:16:20four Houston Texans ten and seven win the division last week of the season.
- 1:16:25Number five Cleveland Browns eleven and six any other year would have won their division.
- 1:16:30Number of number six Miami Dolphins eleven and six been in second in their
- 1:16:33division, and number seven Pittsburgh Steelers ten and seven get in in the last
- 1:16:36week of the season due to Ravens sitting backups. Yep, man, it's
- 1:16:42going to be interesting fitting starters. Yeah, yeah, they set their backups.
- 1:16:50But all right, let's go ahead and get straight into the game.
- 1:16:54So we're gonna talk about these Saturday games and obviously Sunday then Monday. So
- 1:16:58the first Saturday game we have. It's at three point thirty. It's between
- 1:17:01the Cleveland Browns and Houston Texans, and which is gonna be in Houston.
- 1:17:05I don't know if there's any betters that watch this show, but Cleveland they're
- 1:17:10minus two and a half right now and they have a fifty one percent chance
- 1:17:13to win. So, Josh, what do you what are your predictions for
- 1:17:16this game? Who do you think is gonna win? And why? I'm
- 1:17:19thinking the Cleveland Browns are gonna walk away with this win and it's only gonna
- 1:17:23be due well, it's gonna be due to a lot. Joe Flacco,
- 1:17:26the more experienced player. Gun slinger does not care. Amark Cooper will be
- 1:17:30back in this game. He will be healthy, and then you just have
- 1:17:33weapons like Jerome Ford's really come on strong. David Joku is like him and
- 1:17:39Joe Flacco have some type of connection that over the last four weeks can be
- 1:17:43like on match, like they they're finding each other. But this defense,
- 1:17:46this defense is always gonna be this defense. It's Denzel Ward freaking yeah,
- 1:17:51Miles freaking Garrett, you know I It's just this young Texans team's gonna put
- 1:17:56up a fight. Don't get me wrong. I see it being like a
- 1:17:59let's say, a thirty five to twenty four, twenty seven win for the
- 1:18:03for the Cleveland Browns. But it's gonna be a good game. Texans are
- 1:18:09gonna get their own. I can see a couple of big plays from the
- 1:18:11Texans, and but the Browns are just gonna be too much for this team
- 1:18:13and for their first time actually being in this in this type of environment and
- 1:18:16type of type of play setting. So I think that the biggest before I
- 1:18:23think, before I say who's gonna win, I think the Browns obviously being
- 1:18:28able to rest. You basically get a quote unquote by here because made the
- 1:18:32playoffs, stuck in as a five seed, and it all depends on how
- 1:18:38Joe Flacco plays. And I know the turnovers they haven't been affecting the Browns,
- 1:18:43but if he has multiple turnovers in this game, it will end up
- 1:18:45affecting them because how well CJ. Stroud's playing. So, Josh, I'm
- 1:18:49gonna give you a quick stat here. So there's been three qbs in the
- 1:18:55past fifty seasons to lead the league and passing yards per game, passing,
- 1:18:59touchdown, inner sception ratio in a single year. The first one was Joe
- 1:19:03Montana in eighty nine. The second one was Tom Braden O seven, you
- 1:19:09know who. The third one was CJ. Stroud. So he's in historic
- 1:19:15company there. And I think the only reason the Texans are going to have
- 1:19:18a chance here is their third down defense and being able to cash it in
- 1:19:24the red zone. So the Texans their defense is much better than what people
- 1:19:29think it is because because Demico Ryans, their third down percentage is twenty eight
- 1:19:35percent, so they're able to get the stops on third down. And again,
- 1:19:41if Joe Flacco turns over the ball, this is gonna make the ballgame
- 1:19:44interesting because as great as yeah, I think, I think he will if
- 1:19:49he throws. If he throws a turnover once, that's fine, But if
- 1:19:54you get into two to three territory, that's where it's gonna affect because it's
- 1:19:57playoff football. But so the Browns they do have a great defense. But
- 1:20:02I don't know if you know this, Josh so Browns, they have the
- 1:20:05worst red zone defense in the NFL by far. They're giving up seventy percent
- 1:20:11as far as getting touchdowns, so thirty one for forty three, So thirty
- 1:20:16one touchdowns out of forty three red zone trips, so if the Texans they
- 1:20:20get into the red zone, they'll most likely cash in. Don't ask me
- 1:20:25why. Browns are usually good between the twenties, but don't ask me why.
- 1:20:29But I'm picking the upset here. I'm picking the upset. I know,
- 1:20:32I know I'm a mad man. I know I'm a mad man here,
- 1:20:35but hey, you you have you have to do it. I feel
- 1:20:40like there's gonna be one upset here. Not all the favorites are going to
- 1:20:43win here. And I think that the so've I had the Browns winning at
- 1:20:47first, but I'm gonna change my score on the fly. I think that
- 1:20:51the I think that the Texans they win twenty four to twenty three, so
- 1:20:57it's going to be a close game. But I just I think play the
- 1:21:00Phield goal to win. Do you think it's like a field goal to win
- 1:21:02game? I think it's I think it's gonna be more like late or not
- 1:21:09late into the fourth, like nine minutes left. CJ. Stroud gets a
- 1:21:12touchdown, puts them up twenty four to twenty three. Then just defensive battle
- 1:21:15after that. But anything else you want to say before we move on to
- 1:21:20this next game. Now you said it all brother, Well, all right,
- 1:21:27man, I had to get a drink of water right there. I
- 1:21:30got a little bit passionate, got a little bit passionate right there. But
- 1:21:33all right now we're going to talk about your team right here, the Dolphins
- 1:21:36versus the Cheese in which Kansas City. They're a three and a half three
- 1:21:41and a half point favorite, a fifty two chance to win. Josh,
- 1:21:45what is what are your expectations from this game? Dominating defense, one or
- 1:21:51two touchdowns and a lot of field goals. That's that's what I see in
- 1:21:56this game, and I think it's gonna happen because the first the Chiefs played
- 1:22:00the Dolphins, if their offense scored, just just scored in some points that
- 1:22:04they should have instead of turning the ball over or kicking a field goal because
- 1:22:09they went for a fourth a couple of times. They really dominate the Miami
- 1:22:13Dolphins, and that defense had their number the last time they played it.
- 1:22:15I'm sure this defense been coming even more prepared, especially since we've had a
- 1:22:18lot more of Nick Bowlin and Drew Tranquill sets together. But what is scary
- 1:22:23going into the playoffs is against the playoff field, the Chiefs are one and
- 1:22:27four and they only win against is the Dolphins, So that's just something to
- 1:22:31see. But I do think the Chiefs win this game in like a twenty
- 1:22:34four to like seventeen win, or like I give the Dolphins going number twenty,
- 1:22:40I say twenty one to twenty eight win. I can see that happening,
- 1:22:44or twenty four to twenty one type of win for the Kansas City Chiefs.
- 1:22:46I don't see us scoring a lot of points in this one, but
- 1:22:48I do think who's going to be the most important for this whole playoff run
- 1:22:53for us, It's gonna be Isaiah Pacheco. Isaiah Pacheco is gonna be the
- 1:22:56biggest reason why we win football games because when doubt Mahomes is looking for him,
- 1:23:00he's looking for him on the Deacon dunks and everything, and he's running
- 1:23:03like a mad man this year, and a barring injury, you know,
- 1:23:06he has been banged up. I think he's gonna be one of the most
- 1:23:11important factors of this whole postseason for the Kansas City Chiefs. As far as
- 1:23:15the Dolphins side, I don't know, man, there hasn't been a lot
- 1:23:17of yap and like there was last time, and their defense isn't shamble like
- 1:23:20their defense, they're gonna be having they I think BEng Ginkl's gone, Jalen
- 1:23:25Phillips, I think Christian Wilkins is hurt. None of them are playing on
- 1:23:28the JAB yeah and yeah, Bradley Chubb. So it's just this defense is
- 1:23:32gonna be destroyed. And that's I think those are all your front seven,
- 1:23:35you know. So I think it's gonna be a with this Chiefs old line.
- 1:23:40Hopefully they can get their penalties to a standstill and Pacheco having a big
- 1:23:45day. I think the Chiefs win this game. I also do think that
- 1:23:48the Chiefs are gonna win this game, but it's gonna be a very close
- 1:23:53game here. And so I know you said the Dolphins are gonna score over
- 1:23:57twenty one points, But if that's the case, the Chiefs are gonna lose
- 1:24:00this game. Because every time an opponent against the Chiefs this year have scored
- 1:24:04over twenty one points, save won. So I don't think that's gonna happen.
- 1:24:09I think that I think that the Chiefs defense are gonna just show why
- 1:24:12they've been one of the best defenses in the league. I don't care that
- 1:24:15Raheem mostered and Jaylen Waddle. They're potentially going to be back. The Chiefs
- 1:24:18defense are gonna be motivated a mini buy or not a mini basically, quote
- 1:24:23unquote bye you had here in Miami. And so they've had ten games in
- 1:24:30below forty weathers or forty forty degrees and they're own ten in that in that
- 1:24:35time span. And I know you said your only playoff win was against Miami,
- 1:24:41but against all the playoff teams Miami has played, they have a negative
- 1:24:44ninety one point differential, So it is true they can't beat the good teams,
- 1:24:49and the Chiefs they're just more experienced. You have the quarterback, you
- 1:24:55have, you have the head coach. And I think Kansas City they're gonna
- 1:24:59they're gonna look like better offense and what they actually are, like you said,
- 1:25:02due to all the injuries that they have and and the way it's looking,
- 1:25:08it's gonna be zero degrees negative nineteen with the win chill, So it's
- 1:25:14gonna be it's gonna be an ugly game. And this favors Kansas City by
- 1:25:18far. And I think this score is gonna be about a twenty four I
- 1:25:24think twenty four to thirteen ball game. It's gonna it's gonna be low scoring
- 1:25:28for Miami. I just think they won't be able to get it done.
- 1:25:30I don't care who they have coming back offensively, anything else you want to
- 1:25:35take away from this one before we move on to the next one. No,
- 1:25:40I agree with everything you say. It's just I think Pop Pachecko is
- 1:25:44gonna be the be the focal point, and I think if he has a
- 1:25:46big day, we win this football game. Yeah, I think Pachecko should
- 1:25:50be I agree with you one hundred percent. But all right, let's get
- 1:25:54into this Sunday game right here, or the start of the Sunday games in
- 1:25:58which it's the pittsburghs Sailors versus the Buffalo Bills, in which the Bills they're
- 1:26:04minus ten as far as in the pickups and then or the spread, and
- 1:26:11they have it a seventy seven chance to win. Josh, who's gonna win
- 1:26:15this game? And why the Buffalo Bills? No? T J. Watt,
- 1:26:20scrap it. Just call it a day, man, Because this this
- 1:26:25Buffalo Bills team, I think it's gonna be a blowout. I don't think
- 1:26:28that they stillers have enough to keep up with them. This is still a
- 1:26:30good Bills defense not a great Bills defense, but I think the way that
- 1:26:35James Cook and Josh Allen have been like kind of playing off of each other,
- 1:26:39has been very good. It's to the detriment of Stephan Dicks, don't
- 1:26:41get me wrong, but playoff time, they're gonna get their balls to the
- 1:26:45playmaker and that's gonna be Stefon Diggs. So I really do see this being
- 1:26:49a cake walk for the Bills for the first round. In my opinion,
- 1:26:53I think it's gonna be like a twenty eight to thirteen thirteen win. Yeah,
- 1:26:59So that's that's that's what I'm gonna see. I give the Steelers a
- 1:27:00touchdown, but I give them two field goals. Also, So I know
- 1:27:05everybody's talking about the weather game as far as with Kansas City and Miami,
- 1:27:11but nobody's talking about it as far as with Buffalo. So it's going to
- 1:27:14be twenty four degrees but about three and a half inches of snow is projected
- 1:27:17and twenty eight mile prow wins with fifty fifty miles per gust. But go
- 1:27:24ahead. It's Miami versus Kansas City, but it's Pittsburgh versus Buffalo, like
- 1:27:29they're both in the same climate. Yeah, like not the same, but
- 1:27:31like they're both cold areas, you know. So I don't think it's people
- 1:27:34are saying like, oh, it's a big deal that's compared well, I
- 1:27:39think might like I get that, but I think mineus far is as far
- 1:27:42as it's going to be low scoring and people they're not gonna expect it due
- 1:27:45to just do to just the wind, and it favors the Pittsburgh Steelers as
- 1:27:50much as the Buffalo Bills have been running the ball ever since Week ten,
- 1:27:55the Pittsburgh Steelers, they've been averaging one hundred and forty three rushing yards per
- 1:27:58game, so they change their identity to as far as running the football,
- 1:28:02I know Mason Rudolph is there, but the more you're able to put the
- 1:28:06ball into Najie Harris, who just came back to life out of nowhere,
- 1:28:12and Jalen Warren, you're gonna be able to stay in this ball game.
- 1:28:15And will Josh Allen make those mistakes again? You could get away with turnovers
- 1:28:20in the regular season, but when it comes to postseason football, there's only
- 1:28:25so many turnovers you could have. In his last two postseason games against against
- 1:28:30the Miami Dolphins, which they didn't have Tua. He had three turnovers.
- 1:28:33Against the Bengals, he had three turnovers. So it's become a habit now,
- 1:28:38so I know there's no TJ. Watt. I still think the Bills
- 1:28:41are gonna win, but I think it's gonna be close due to just the
- 1:28:45bad weather the Steelers being able to run the ball. So I think the
- 1:28:48Bills are gonna win this game seventeen to ten at very very low scoring,
- 1:28:56just due to Mike Tomlin him being able to coach. So is there anything
- 1:29:00else you want to take away before we move into this next one? No,
- 1:29:08I agree with what you say, but I do think the Bills scored
- 1:29:11more points than that. I think they're used to these conditions, so for
- 1:29:15them, it's gonna be another home game. Yeah, yeah, that's true.
- 1:29:18I could definitely see that. But all right, let's get into this
- 1:29:23next game right here, America's team right here, the what's the game everybody's
- 1:29:29probably gonna be watching in which it's the Green Bay Packers versus the Dallas Cowboys,
- 1:29:34And what's the Cowboys? They're favored by seven and a half points and
- 1:29:38they have a seventy four chance to win. Josh. Who's gonna win this
- 1:29:43game? Uh, the Dallas Cowboys. Like I said earlier, I kind
- 1:29:47of gave my take on this game already, you know earlier in the pod.
- 1:29:51Sure, the Packers, they could have a big day. They could.
- 1:29:57Any team can have a big day versus any team. But I think
- 1:30:00experience alone with the Cowboys side with them. Mike McCarthy with Dak of CD,
- 1:30:06Zach Martin, Brandon Cooks, Micah Parsons, Stefan Gilmore. You know,
- 1:30:13this team's prepared, like they're prepared to go in there. We've seen
- 1:30:15it all season that they can win big, they could win in a they
- 1:30:18can win in a grudge match. So I'm gonna take the Dallas Cowboys in
- 1:30:24this one quite quite easily. I can see like a thirty five to seventeen,
- 1:30:29thirty five to seventeen thirty eight, seventeen type of win in this one.
- 1:30:31I do think the Packers kind of show a little bit of life,
- 1:30:33but it just won't be enough. They're too young, their weapons, they
- 1:30:36don't have enough weapons to keep up. But I commend them for making it
- 1:30:41this far. But the Cowboys are gonna walk away with this one. So
- 1:30:45I agree with you right there. I think the Cowboys are gonna win,
- 1:30:48but I think it's gonna be I think it's going to be close at first,
- 1:30:54dude to just Jordan Love. Jordan Love at this moment right now.
- 1:30:58So Dak Prescott's playing as a second best quarterback, well first in my opinion,
- 1:31:02but according to most people's opinion, the second best behind Lamar Jackson,
- 1:31:05which is fair. But Jordan Love has been playing in that top five level
- 1:31:12ever since Week nine. He's had He's had a ninety seven point seven Pro
- 1:31:17Football Focus grade, so he's just been on a tear. And as far
- 1:31:23as throwing the ball downfield, he has a one hundred and forty three passer
- 1:31:29rating, so he's just been on fire, not missing any throw. And
- 1:31:33I think they're going to be there. The biggest downfall for them is going
- 1:31:36to be their defense. You have the twenty seventh ranked rushing defense, and
- 1:31:42I know that they're able to get to the quarterback and they get to the
- 1:31:45quarterback about forty percent of the time. And a stat to watch here.
- 1:31:49I know the Packers get a lot of sacks. Like I said, usually
- 1:31:53it takes them to sack to the quarterback to two point seven to three seconds,
- 1:31:57which sounds pretty damn fast, But Dak Prescott's average time to throw the
- 1:32:01ball is two point sixty nine seconds, so that's not gonna affect effect Dak's
- 1:32:08rhythm and he's gonna They're gonna be able to run the ball. Just a
- 1:32:11tempo game, And I think if the Cowboys they get up early, if
- 1:32:16they get up seven, if they get up seven zero, I feel like
- 1:32:19it's just just gonna kill the Packers spirit here because, like I said,
- 1:32:25they are one of the youngest teams in the NFL or the youngest team to
- 1:32:29make the playoffs since nineteen seventy four, So if they get up early,
- 1:32:32they could just get down. But I'm just saying know when the Dallas Cowboys,
- 1:32:38being a Dallas Cowboys fan, I know, I know what this team
- 1:32:43is capable of positive as far as on the good side and the bad side.
- 1:32:46If they let the Packers hang around, you're gonna give them confidence and
- 1:32:51they're gonna be doing something that they probably shouldn't be doing. But with that
- 1:32:56being said, I think I know that was the Stefan Gilmour as far as
- 1:33:00him potentially being injured, Shoult as far as his shoulders popped out of place.
- 1:33:04He said he's gonna play, Zach Martin's gonna play, Tyder Smith is
- 1:33:08going to play. So I think I think this game. I know I
- 1:33:13don't give predictions, but as far as in the game, I think this
- 1:33:16is more of a Tony Pollard show. I think Tony Pollard he's gonna have
- 1:33:21his first big game over one hundred yards. I see multiple touchdowns here for
- 1:33:26him. Dak's still going to be Dak, but it's going to be as
- 1:33:30far as the Cowboys just controlling the ball right here and just playing not necessarily
- 1:33:35keep away from Jordan Love, but stopping him from making those big plays.
- 1:33:42And I see this game being I see it being a thirty four to twenty
- 1:33:47one ball game right here. Just oh yeah. And then another another stat
- 1:33:53that I want to tell you, Josh, I saved it. I had
- 1:33:55it since last week, but I didn't want to say it because we didn't
- 1:33:57have the two seeds yet. So Mike McCarry has a two seater higher he's
- 1:34:02reached the NFC Championship game at worst. So I'm just saying I'm not talking
- 1:34:10about I'm not talking about the next game. The next game I'm just talking
- 1:34:13about right now. But I'm just saying, I'm just saying, if history
- 1:34:16repeats itself. But anything else you want to take away from this, No,
- 1:34:21that's it on this one. All right? Well the sun in that
- 1:34:26game we have here, which I think this is gonna be the best game
- 1:34:30to watch right here. It's gonna be between the Los Angeles Rams and the
- 1:34:34Detroit Lions, which Stafford goes back home, potential golf revenge game and what's
- 1:34:41Detroit. They're favored by three and a half points and have a fifty four
- 1:34:43percent chance to win. So, Josh, who do you think is gonna
- 1:34:46win this game? And why have you seen the memes coming out on this
- 1:34:49game? Like yeah, I see it all, Like you guys want to
- 1:34:54go like like you know, man, if Golfer, if me and Golf
- 1:34:57are standing right here and Stafford wall oh cook, like like get gone on.
- 1:35:01Stafford, Golf's my guy. Now, Golf's my guy. Like I
- 1:35:06don't even care that Stafford's on the other side, Yeah, like he was.
- 1:35:11He's not even my quarterback, Like don't even like like it's funny,
- 1:35:14like they're just like like going at each other cause Stafford's like their prodigal son.
- 1:35:18And then he's not. He's playing against them now, you know Stafford,
- 1:35:24Yeah, now the golf Rams, Now the golf revenge against the Rams.
- 1:35:28You know, this is gonna be a cool game, Like I'm gonna
- 1:35:30have watching this if this is not high scoring. I feel like every time
- 1:35:32I say, oh, this will be a high scoring football, yeah,
- 1:35:35it happens. Yeah, like twenty because people expect the Cowboys and Lions goating
- 1:35:40to be high scoring and it just wasn't. Like it was just like damn,
- 1:35:42these details playing like out of their minds right now. But yeah,
- 1:35:46as far as this one, I do think it's gonna be high scoring,
- 1:35:48like thirty eight thirty five. I can see that happening. And I think
- 1:35:53the Lions come away with this one behind like a big day from Amanos.
- 1:35:58Same Brown. I think he's gonna take a part these rookie cornerbacks and I
- 1:36:00and I think it's gonna be the deciding factor because he's gonna make a big
- 1:36:03play at the end and he's gonna make it happen. And then Jamior Gibbs
- 1:36:06is just coming into his own. I just really want to see him Sell
- 1:36:10imports healthy. On the other side. I think they still have a big
- 1:36:12day too. I think Pooka gets what he gets. Kyron runs the way.
- 1:36:16But the thing is, the Lions are I don't know anymore, but
- 1:36:21they are the best at one point, the best team against the run.
- 1:36:24So you know that that could be something to monitor right there. But even
- 1:36:28if they're shutting it down, the Rams do not care. They just keep
- 1:36:30running the ball like so, yeah, it's just a fun game. I'm
- 1:36:34excited to watch this one. This is the one I'm most excited to watch,
- 1:36:38besides the Chiefs, of course, which I'm kind of like the nervous
- 1:36:41as hell about. But the Chiefs, the Lions and Rams. It's gonna
- 1:36:45be a fun game. You know, it's always the best games to watch
- 1:36:48is always when there's no pressure, Like you're not watching your favorite team.
- 1:36:53He just gets watching. I am watching. I forgot I forgot the Lions.
- 1:36:58But I'll talk about your real team here. I'm talking about team here
- 1:37:02like you like in this game. So honestly, I think the Rams they
- 1:37:09have the advantage here due to the veterans in their the Super Bowl winning head
- 1:37:15coach, and just the experience and the thing that's gonna the thing that's gonna
- 1:37:21decide this game right here, is who's gonna be able to run the ball
- 1:37:24better. I know the Rams, they've been averaging twenty eight points per game
- 1:37:28these last eight games. But so the Rams over the course of the season,
- 1:37:33they're six and one. Whenever Kyen Williams rushed for over one hundred yards,
- 1:37:39and when the Lions they rushed over one hundred yards, they're ten and
- 1:37:43four. And those four games that they lost, it was against the Cowboys
- 1:37:47and then I think a couple I can't remember the other three, but they
- 1:37:50were closer games too, so yeah, and and they were they were closer
- 1:37:57games. The scores look out of hand, but they were closer in the
- 1:37:59moment. So whoever runs the ball more effective in this game is going to
- 1:38:02win the football game. And coaching advantage is real here. Sean McVay compared
- 1:38:10to Dan Campbell, he's kinda he's kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna
- 1:38:14say this, Dan, fuck exactly, That's what I'm saying. He like
- 1:38:19it's Madden, Okay. I know you Dan Campbell so much, bro,
- 1:38:26Like, Okay, there's only so much you can do. I feel like
- 1:38:30I feel like he's him and Mike McCarthy as far as great, good to
- 1:38:34great coaches, in my mind, no question. As far as situationally,
- 1:38:39clock management, that's where he could get iffy. And in the playoffs,
- 1:38:43you know, the little details, they could end up affecting you there.
- 1:38:46And I think that's gonna not necessarily that this is gonna happen, but I
- 1:38:51think that could end up changing the whole outcome of the game. And I
- 1:38:56don't think it's gonna be as high scoring as you think. I don't see
- 1:38:58a thirty eight thirty five. I see it being a twenty eight to twenty
- 1:39:00four ball game. And I think the upset happens. I think the upset
- 1:39:05happens. I'm picking two upsets. I'm picking two upsets already. So we're
- 1:39:11not gonna release our last game yet. But I feel like Stafford goes back
- 1:39:15into Detroit and just wins. I just think it's gonna happen. I just
- 1:39:19feel like it's just a perfect setup and everything. So the Lions, they're
- 1:39:26gonna need to be perfect on offense, and without Sam Laporta, it's gonna
- 1:39:30hard for you to stay perfect the entire time. It's gonna be damn hard.
- 1:39:34So and kind of. I'm gonna say this, other than Jared Goff,
- 1:39:41who else do you have on that team that's been in the playoffs experienced?
- 1:39:45Who else do you have do you have on there? You really have
- 1:39:47nobody else. So they're not necessarily on the Packers level as far as an
- 1:39:54experience. But if they get down early, which the Rams, we know
- 1:39:58they have always people's owns. Dude, stop playing, you're stupid. But
- 1:40:05but if the Rams get up early, would say, always have a positive
- 1:40:09game script to start off, because that's Sean McVay. That could end up
- 1:40:13affecting the team around. So I think I think that the Rams are gonna
- 1:40:17get up somewhat early. I say, like a fourteen ten lead or a
- 1:40:23fourteen fourteen three, fourteen ten lead, Lions are gonna try to storm their
- 1:40:27way back. But I just don't see it happening. I think it's gonna
- 1:40:30be twenty eight twenty four Rams. Who I know, I know, I'm
- 1:40:36picking two upsets. It feels it feels very wrong to do that, but
- 1:40:43you're you're you're a wild man. Brother. Hey, you gotta take big
- 1:40:46risk here. But all right, anything else you want to take away before
- 1:40:49we get into this last game. Nope, nope, No, Hey,
- 1:40:54if Alma goes for one thirty receiving yards and a touchdown and a win,
- 1:41:02I'm buying his jersey. You're buying his jersey. I'm buying his jersey because
- 1:41:08I told him. I told who was that one of my first of my
- 1:41:11friends in the barbershop. I was like, yo, if i'm rug is
- 1:41:13twenty five points versus the Cowboys for me? And oh yeah you talked about
- 1:41:16Yeah, I'm talking to twenty two. He had twenty two. So you
- 1:41:20know, hey, it was close enough, but let's see you. You
- 1:41:25gotta wear it next week if you do well, I don't know, that's
- 1:41:28kind of soon. If it comes in that fast, I don't know.
- 1:41:30If they bring them, say, that's kind of we can't pull up,
- 1:41:32we can't pull up to our fans or nothing like that. And they're gonna
- 1:41:34have brown jersey. Yeah, yeah, no, that's true. But anything
- 1:41:41else you gonna take away before we get into this last game? No,
- 1:41:45all right, well we can get into this last game in which it's Monday
- 1:41:48night football between the fan favorite here The Bake Show, The Bake Show versus
- 1:41:56Philly Baker Mayfield. All right, I'm gonna gohad, and let you say
- 1:42:00what you gotta say, Josh, what do you think is can what do
- 1:42:03you think is gonna happen in this game? And who's winning? The Tampa
- 1:42:08Bay Buccaneers are winning this football game. And I'm gonna put that out there
- 1:42:12right now. The Eagles are not the same Eagles team they were to start
- 1:42:15the season. They're just not. They're the team that started ten to one
- 1:42:16is no longer that team. They have dropped so many games since then,
- 1:42:20and even to bad teams, even to the Cardinals. They have dropped a
- 1:42:23big game to the Cardinals, and they gave it up at the end when
- 1:42:25they were up by like twenty one points at one point, and then they've
- 1:42:29lost the Giants sit end this season, and they're banged up. So if
- 1:42:32we're really gonna talk experience, both these teams match equally, because you know,
- 1:42:38the Buccaneers got loads of experience and the Eagles got loads of experience,
- 1:42:43and it just no matter who's gonna come in. And I think it's gonna
- 1:42:45be a low scoring game. I think it's gonna be like a seventeen to
- 1:42:47thirteen win, or like a really like a yeah, I don't see this
- 1:42:51thing going pretty big. I see Mike Evans making a big play, and
- 1:42:55I see Baker just doing his moxie, you know. But then I just
- 1:42:58don't know. I just don't see this big out I scoring football game.
- 1:43:00So I'm gonna take the Tampa BA Buccaneers in this one. I think Rashard
- 1:43:03White has a big day, Baker Mayfield plays good conservative football, and they
- 1:43:08get the job done in this one. Nantwina Winfield Junior is feeling a little
- 1:43:12snubbed right now, along with the jerious need for not making the Pro Bowl.
- 1:43:15So you know these guys are they have a lot to prove. Well,
- 1:43:21I agree with you. I think the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are gonna win
- 1:43:25this game. I do. I think there's the Philly There's just three upsets.
- 1:43:30You're a wild boy. Hey, hey, hey, I'm just telling
- 1:43:34hey, take all of them. No, no, no, no,
- 1:43:38no no, I'm definitely not taking taking the Packers over the Cowboys. Look,
- 1:43:42watch that be the only one only upset. Man. Oh my goodness,
- 1:43:45I'm telling you if if the Cowboys lose, I'm gonna start this podcast
- 1:43:50by playing Marvin's Room. I'm not even joking. I will do it.
- 1:43:54I'll do it. We could have did it for this podcast for me in
- 1:43:57real life. Oh yeah, I got broken up with guys, just love
- 1:44:04me no more. Oh but we're here doing We're all right. Well,
- 1:44:15all right, let's get back on track here. So yeah, no,
- 1:44:18I think I think the Buccaneers are gonna win this ball game. And I
- 1:44:26know it's not a large sample size, but it's gonna depend on Rashad White
- 1:44:29here. So again, I know it's a four game sample size here,
- 1:44:32but the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at three and one win ra White just has over
- 1:44:36eighty rushing yards. And the only game they lost in which they were in
- 1:44:42a shootout, I can't think of exactly who it was. Again, but
- 1:44:45if they're able to run the ball effectively, then they will be able to
- 1:44:48win this game. And not even mentioning Philly, they're banged up. Jalen
- 1:44:54Hurts distocated middle finger that could potentially affect him throwing the ball in entirely.
- 1:45:00I know he's been injured as far as on his knees, so he can't
- 1:45:03really run the ball that well. AJ Brown got hurt, DeVonta Smith he's
- 1:45:08in a walking boot. So so yeah, everything just pointing to the Buccaneers
- 1:45:13winning this game, not necessarily because the Buccaneers they're on this heater and they're
- 1:45:17just this sneaky team like the Rams going into the playoffs. They're they're just
- 1:45:21gonna win just by default, if that makes sense, Like I think that's
- 1:45:28just gonna just gonna happen in and Bake Show. Do you Okay, I
- 1:45:33know this off topic, but do you think if they win this playoff game
- 1:45:39get into the second round? Uh, let's just let's not go into any
- 1:45:42of the other games, but getting gets into the second round. Do you
- 1:45:45think he gets another chance next year in Tampa? He has to like he
- 1:45:50leads you here, like he's like I guess he's had some maybe down games,
- 1:45:54but most of your losses aren't on Baker Mayfield, like you know,
- 1:45:57like just in efficient run game all this, Like he has played great football.
- 1:46:00And I may be a little biased, but I'm not, Like I
- 1:46:03know he's had his struggles in his past, but like right now, like
- 1:46:08how do you go away from the guy that led you to the playoffs after
- 1:46:11Like he was just supposed to be your bridge quarterback but as of right now,
- 1:46:14like who are you gonna get like he didn't put you in draft position
- 1:46:16to draft a quarterback that's worth worth the first round er, you know,
- 1:46:20and like, I don't know, like I think, if you want to
- 1:46:25keep Mike Evans on this football team, Baker Mayfield is the guy that you
- 1:46:28want because he's forcing the ball to Mike Evans every single time. You know,
- 1:46:30It's true. It's just I think Baker Mayfield does deserve even if he
- 1:46:34loses his game, deserves another shot at least have a chance to be like
- 1:46:38named the starter week one, you know. Yeah, yeah, like so
- 1:46:42that's that's what I think. Yeah, yeah, I agree with you.
- 1:46:46I would, just I was just wondering, because you know, you there's
- 1:46:49always a chance for an upgrade somewhere. Somebody always pops up. I don't
- 1:46:55know where. So are we gonna do a and see who gets closer?
- 1:46:58For this one? I completely forgot about the pickums last week. I guess
- 1:47:03we're gonna have to figure out who won off air, because what the heck,
- 1:47:10I give the people what they want. I completely I completely forgot.
- 1:47:14I guess we're gonna have to bring that up next week. But yeah,
- 1:47:16no, we could do the pickums because we definitely have some differences here.
- 1:47:20So h so yeah, now you right, you write these down and I'm
- 1:47:26gonna text you be like, hey, Bonzo, check this hit. Okay,
- 1:47:30And then when I get when I get those upsets, right, I
- 1:47:34know one of them are gonna happen for sure. One of them are gonna
- 1:47:38happen for sure. I think the Bucks. I think the Bucks and Philly
- 1:47:42won. I don't think that's an upset. I know Philly, they're favored
- 1:47:45by thirty points and they have a fifty seven percent chance to win. But
- 1:47:49I just I think that's not an upset. That's obvious. But I think
- 1:47:55the more likely one. I think the more likely one here is the Rams
- 1:48:00beating the Lions. That that's that's similarly one. But the thing is,
- 1:48:05is that an upset, Like, I mean, it's an upset, of
- 1:48:09course, but the way the Rams close the season out like yeah, they
- 1:48:13they're they're I think they're on par with each other in my opinion. I
- 1:48:16think the Rams are, and but the Lions, No, I get you.
- 1:48:20I know what you're saying. The Lions have been the whole season like
- 1:48:25good, you know, you know, I get you. Yeah, that's
- 1:48:27an upset. It would be an upset if they win. Yeah, So
- 1:48:30okay, So we talked about as far as the upsets, which game do
- 1:48:35you think is the lock for sure? Like you're like, Oh, this
- 1:48:39team's gonna win for sure, no doubt about it. Out of all of
- 1:48:42the playoff games going on throughout the weekend, Bill Steelers, the Bills are
- 1:48:46a lock. I think the Bills are a lock, and I'm not even
- 1:48:50gonna say the Chiefs because I don't believe we are a lock. I don't
- 1:48:54think the way we've been playing offensively makes us a lock. So I'm so
- 1:48:58I'm gonna go with the Bills. I honestly think the Chiefs game is a
- 1:49:01lock here. I honestly think it is. Yeah, I think I'll take
- 1:49:05it. I think that just the Chiefs, the way they play defensively,
- 1:49:10and the weather it's gonna play such a big factor in this game where Miami.
- 1:49:14But then Andy Reid does unload a whole different playbook in the playoffs,
- 1:49:17like he exactly, he doesn't. He doesn't show you anything you saw in
- 1:49:21the regular season. And another big thing is that Kelsey was able to rest
- 1:49:26last week too. So Kelsey's been really banged up, so he's probably not
- 1:49:30even gonna practice all this week. They're probably gonna just have him go through
- 1:49:33a walkthrough on Friday or whatever. So so yeah, he's gonna based on
- 1:49:40Jalen Phillips or Van Ginkel to guard him. Yeah, it's gonna have to
- 1:49:43be Ramsey, and he cooks Ramsey every single time they play. So yeah,
- 1:49:46but now you're gonna have to I'm not saying Rashid Rice is all that
- 1:49:51in the bag of chips, but I'm just saying. I'm just saying he's
- 1:49:57he could make a big play here because you're not gonna have it Xavier and
- 1:50:00Howard there. I know you have Javon Holland, but you're not gonna have
- 1:50:02Javon Holland covering Rice is too big, Like he's too big of a like
- 1:50:06a receiver for just to go one on one. We see how many pis
- 1:50:11he draws, because like he's like he's just explosive, you know. Yeah,
- 1:50:15he he's just that good. And I think I'm telling you, I
- 1:50:18think if I had to give a prediction for that one, I think not
- 1:50:25this. Pacheco's gonna have a good game, Don't get me wrong. He's
- 1:50:27gonna be the main reason why they win. But I think the second second
- 1:50:30most important reason why they win is gonna be because Rashiel Rice he has a
- 1:50:34big day. I think there's gonna be two big plays that he makes,
- 1:50:39whether that's grabbing a touchdown or just a big play over the top. He's
- 1:50:43he's gonna have at least a couple of them. I think it's it's slowly
- 1:50:46been, it's slowly been growing. And Andy Reid always has tricks up his
- 1:50:50sleeve. So so yeah, but all right, so you want to make
- 1:50:56these picks or what, well, you can write him down. Okay,
- 1:51:02you write them down. Okay, let me write them down. So Browns
- 1:51:06Texans. I got the Browns, so all right, I got the Texans.
- 1:51:15Next one is the Chiefs Dolphins Chiefs of course, yeah, we both
- 1:51:21we both got the Chiefs here. So next game is which one Bill Steelers?
- 1:51:29I got the Bills. Yeah, I got the Bills in this one
- 1:51:32too. And the next one it's the Packers Cowboys, Cowboys, both of
- 1:51:39us. And then this is where we change ours. This is where it's
- 1:51:45yeah, the ms raw all right. Have you seen that guy before,
- 1:52:01he's like a Bengles fan. He's like you know I'm gonna do it for
- 1:52:04you every single time. That's crazy, that's all right. I have these
- 1:52:13picks written down right here. So so the differences right here is the two
- 1:52:19games. Yeah yeah, So the differences we have is the Browns and Texans
- 1:52:26and the Rams and Lions. This is those are the differences we have right
- 1:52:30there. So okay, so we could potentially tie right here. I know
- 1:52:34I'm gonna have the two upsets, but just in case, what do you
- 1:52:39want the typebreaker to be? Mm or you know what, We'll we'll decide
- 1:52:47it like this. This is gonna be this is gonna be something a little
- 1:52:49bit different. So from the Philly and Bucks game, since we both think
- 1:52:57the Bucks are gonna win, who has the bigger days statistically on the Bucks?
- 1:53:02So my pick will be Rashad White, okay? And who who your
- 1:53:11picky? Mike Evans? Mike Evans okay, So that's gonna be the tiebreaker
- 1:53:15there. So whoever has the better statistical game or so who has more receiving
- 1:53:23yards? Alma or Kua? Don't don't put me in that situation like that.
- 1:53:30Okay, how about we do I'm taking since al Monroe is your guy?
- 1:53:34How about I do CD Lamb. Okay, No, CD gets so
- 1:53:41much in spurts, Oh my god, like get so much in like big
- 1:53:44plays like fuck it, notheruck it. I'll do take CD. Yeah,
- 1:53:51I'll take CD. All right, Well that'll be the tiebreaker, you guys,
- 1:53:57you guys hear that. Whenever CD ghost for two hundred yards, then
- 1:54:01then alright, I'll just have it was fair like it was a fair one.
- 1:54:05You know, I don't, I don't know. You just don't trust
- 1:54:10Pooka, Huh, I don't. I don't trust pook I don't trust Pooka
- 1:54:14to do that. If anything, he just season you know, I don't
- 1:54:21know. I just I just have a weird feeling. I have a weird
- 1:54:24feeling that he's gonna they're gonna well, they're gonna, yeah, they're gonna
- 1:54:29shut down by doubling Pooka. And then Cooper Cup's gonna come back to Yeah,
- 1:54:33he's gonna just start going crazy again. And Brandon Cooks have like one
- 1:54:38hundred and eighty yard game, and then CD Lamb has like three catches for
- 1:54:42like thirty three yards. Hey if we hey, if we get the dub,
- 1:54:45I don't give a damn what it is. Honestly, I don't I
- 1:54:48don't give it. I'm gonna be freaking Jalen Tolbert game. Hey, Jalen
- 1:54:55Tolbert's been nice. He he's been nice. But all right, do you
- 1:54:59have anything else even before we close this pod? Nah? Don't. Good?
- 1:55:04Well, all right, it's gonna be interesting. Either we're gonna be
- 1:55:10we're gonna be real happy as far as going into this next podcast, or
- 1:55:15we're gonna be playing Marvin's Room one of the two, one of them.
- 1:55:18If one of the teams lose, we're gonna be playing this song. But
- 1:55:21all right, once again, you guys could be following us on Twitter.
- 1:55:28My gosh, I'm gonna be so pissed, bro, I can't get broken
- 1:55:32up and the Chiefs lose in the same week. Dog, Yeah, let's
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- 1:55:59it this far, Josh Anyr last words, Chief Kingdom. Playoffs have arrived.
- 1:56:08That's it. You already know the deal. Well all right, well
- 1:56:12let's see next week. Well all right, you guys. We'll see you
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